David Crystal, OBE, FBA, FLSW (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author. Read full biography of David Crystal →
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.
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it... →
It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my... →
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... →
David Crystal, OBE, FBA, FLSW (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author.