As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

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.