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

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

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.

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.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.