David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and one of the world’s preeminent language specialists. 

He has written nearly one hundred books, including The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, The Stories of English, By Hook or By Crook: a Journey in Search of English, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 and A Little Book of Language (Yale University Press, 2010).

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