Is British English a historical and cultural monument, or can it – indeed should it – still serve as a model for international use?

Will ‘native speakers’ of English have to change some of their most cherished and least examined assumptions as the language approaches the 21st century?

The director of Longman dictionaries looks at a unique and profitable species of wordbook, the ELT or EFL dictionary.

The Director of the BBC Pronunciation Unit follows our recent articles on RP and the Queen's English with a review of how his corporation has approached such thorny issues over the six decades of its existence

Is the language really in need of protection, anywhere in the world? If it is, who could be the protectors? A freelance journalist offers some comments on usage gurus and linguistic popes.

The histoty of the words ‘grammar’ and ‘grammarian’ tells us a great deal about attitudes to grammar and grammarians.

What factors operate over the centuries to rub a language like English down, and what factors serve to counteract such processes?