We quite often talk, colloquially, about the written language having "evolved". As the linguist David Crystal's new book demonstrates with...
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David Crystal is fascinating, fastidious and full of knowledge on the subject of English spelling – though a little hard on Dr Seuss.
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For more than 30 years, David Crystal has been producing books, articles, radio and TV programmes and interviews by the gallon-load, and 2010 yielded a bumper...
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Texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and...
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Were the English language ever to need an official guardian, Professor David Crystal certainly looks the part. With a godly white beard,...
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Growing up in a bilingual community in North Wales triggered my curiosity about languages, reinforced by learning some Latin to serve mass,...
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In his study of text messaging culture, linguist David Crystal asks us to picture the investors' meeting when the mobile phone was first...
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Professor David Crystal is one the world's foremost linguistic experts. His latest book, The Fight for English (published by OUP) assesses the debate over...
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We caught up with leading English language expert and patron to IATEFL, David Crystal, at the organisation's conference this week.
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The book is part history, part guide: the history predominates, yet there's also a fair amount of what David Crystal calls "basic travel advice".
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