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.

He has also served as an important editor for Cambridge University Press. Crystal was awarded the OBE in 1995 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. After the company's acquisition by Ad Pepper Media N.

David Crystal OBE FBA FLSW (born July 6 1941) is a linguist academic and author.