As I Get Older And I Get

The Story Of English Spelling Is The Story Of Thousands Of People - Some Well-known, Most Totally Unknown - Who Left A Permanent Linguistic Fingerprint On Our Orthography.

Anyone Interested In Language Ends Up Writing About The Sociological Issues Around It.

English Has Been This Vacuum Cleaner Of A Language, Because Of Its History Meeting Up With The Romans And Then The Danes, The Vikings And Then The French And Then The Renaissance With All The Latin And Greek And Hebrew In The Background.

In Effect We Are, Bending And Breaking The Rules Of The Language. And If Someone Were To Ask Why We Do It, The Answer Is Simply: For Fun

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.