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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.