Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

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.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.