Table of Contents

1: Beginnings
2: Complications
3: Variations
4 S4: Standards
5 R5: Reformers
6: Borrowings
7: Courtiers
8: Rustics
9: Authors
10: Censurers
11: Protectors
12: Chaos
13: Authorities
14: Change
15: Grammar
16: Appropriateness
17: Incorrectness
18: Perspicuity
19: Clarity
20: Punctuation
21: Antecedents
22: Consequences
23: Context
24: Spelling
25: Elocution
26: Pronunciation
27: Institutions
28: Education
29: Climates
30: Future

About the Author

David Crystal is the foremost writer and lecturer on the English language, with a world-wide reputation and over 100 books to his name. He is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and has been awarded an OBE for services to the English Language.

Reviews

elegant, accessible, illuminating
*Times Education Supplement*

Illuminating