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

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

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

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.

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

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.