Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.