David Crystal
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"David Crystal", Order of the British Empire/OBE, Fellow of the British Academy/FBA, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales/FLSW is a British linguistics/linguist, academic and author.

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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.

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

This is not the death of the cockney accent, it is a reincarnation.