Word Traitors (eBook)

David Crystal, OBE, is known throughout the world as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. His work on Shakespeare includes Pronouncing Shakespeare, Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Languages, and, with Ben Crystal, Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life, Shakespeare's Words, The Shakespeare Miscellany, and The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary. He has written or edited over 100 books and published numerous articles for scholarly, professional, and general readerships on the history and development of English, including The Stories of English, How Language Works, Evolving English, Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling, Crystal's Curiosity Cabinet: An English Language Miscellany, and Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain, with Hilary Crystal.