Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

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.

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

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.

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

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

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.