“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.”
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David Crystal
David Crystal is a distinguished British linguist, author, and broadcaster, born on July 6, 1941. He has made substantial contributions to linguistics through his extensive research and publications. Crystal has authored more than 100 books on language, grammar, and phonetics, and has presented numerous television and radio programs on these topics. more
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