Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

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

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

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.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.