Books interview: David Crystal
The author of The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works on the delights of Just William, serendipity and Victorian self-help books
The author of The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works on the delights of Just William, serendipity and Victorian self-help books
How is it that in a typical English department, the one thing that is hardly taught or studied at all is English – the language, with its history, its variety and its structure? (A recent survey of...
David Crystal sets the record straight on claims the Australian accent originated in drunken speech
There’s an abundance of serious material outside the academy so why not use it, says Karen Harris