By Hook Or By Crook

A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.David Crystal has been described (by the Times Higher Education Supplement) as a sort of ''latter day Dr Johnson'', a populist linguist who has promoted the study of the English language in an aca...