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

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.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. 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.