Sending A Message On A Mobile Phone

At Any One Time Language Is A Kaleidoscope Of Styles, Genres And Dialects.

Vocabulary Is A Matter Of Word-building As Well As Word-using.

Language Has No Independent Existence Apart From The People Who Use It. It Is Not An End In Itself; It Is A Means To An End Of Understanding Who You Are And What Society Is Like.

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.