History Quote by David Crystal

I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity…

— David Crystal

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer…

— David Crystal

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that…

— David Crystal

The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of…

— David Crystal

One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the…

— David Crystal

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is…

— David Crystal

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

— David Crystal

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…

— David Crystal

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely…

— David Crystal

“Here are three elements we often see in town names: If a town ends in “-by”, it was originally a farmstead or a small…

— David Crystal

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened…

— David Crystal