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).