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

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

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

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.

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.

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.