A Feature Of English That Makes It

Ever Since The Arrival Of Printing - Thought To Be The Invention Of The Devil Because It Would Put False Opinions Into People's Minds - People Have Been Arguing That New Technology Would Have Disastrous Consequences For Language.

Word Books Traditionally Focus On Unusual And Quirky Items. They Tend To Ignore The Words That Provide The Skeleton Of The Language, Without Which It Would Fall Apart, Such As 'and' And 'what,' Or Words That Provide Structure To Our Conversation, Such As 'hello.

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.

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 Be Sorted Out, And It Proved To Be A Major Project.

Academics Don't Normally Manage To Alter People's Way Of Thinking Through Their Strength Of Argument.