David Crystal (disambiguation)

"David Crystal" is composed of at least 3 distinct authors, divided by their works.

About the Author

Includes the names: Dvid Crystl, Dacid Crystal, David Crystal, David Crystal-Ed., etc. David Crystal, Prof David Crystal, David Crystal, ed., David Editor Crystal, Ed. by David Crystal

Author Division

David Crystal (1)

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) — Editor, some editions — 3,261 copies, 21 reviews
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (2005) — Introduction, some editions — 1,892 copies, 36 reviews
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995) — Author — 1,526 copies, 12 reviews
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language (1987) 1,446 copies, 10 reviews
The Stories of English (2004) 1,392 copies, 19 reviews
How Language Works (2006) 1,016 copies, 13 reviews
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion (2004) 612 copies, 2 reviews
A Little Book of Language (2010) 606 copies, 10 reviews
The Story of English in 100 Words (2011) 489 copies, 30 reviews
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia (1994) 447 copies, 1 review
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (2012) 347 copies, 7 reviews
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language (1988) 334 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge Factfinder (1993) 324 copies, 1 review
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (2006) 311 copies, 11 reviews
By Hook or By Crook (2007) 286 copies, 9 reviews
English as a Global Language (1997) 284 copies, 3 reviews
The Shakespeare Miscellany (2005) 259 copies, 5 reviews
Language Death (2000) 259 copies, 1 review
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language (2010) 247 copies, 7 reviews
The Penguin Encyclopedia (2003) 236 copies
Linguistics (1971) 215 copies, 3 reviews
A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (1985) 202 copies, 1 review
Words Words Words (2006) 201 copies, 4 reviews
Rediscover Grammar (1988) 197 copies, 1 review
Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation (2015) 195 copies, 6 reviews
The Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990) — Editor — 181 copies, 2 reviews
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 (2008) 165 copies, 9 reviews
Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (2012) — Foreword, some editions — 158 copies, 8 reviews
Language and the Internet (2001) 149 copies
The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words (2015) 139 copies, 1 review
Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language (2008) 133 copies, 3 reviews
Language Play (1998) 127 copies, 2 reviews
Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages (2000) 106 copies
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar (2017) 105 copies, 2 reviews
As They Say in Zanzibar (2006) 98 copies
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary (2015) 94 copies
Dictionary of Language and Languages, An Encyclopedic (Reference) (1992) 90 copies
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2014) 81 copies
Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain (2013) 80 copies, 1 review
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works (2016) 73 copies, 3 reviews
Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment (2005) 69 copies, 3 reviews
Just A Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language (2009) 59 copies, 3 reviews
Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices (2010) 58 copies, 1 review
What’s Language Got to Do with It? (2005) — Contributor — 57 copies, 2 reviews
Who Cares About English Usage? (1984) 56 copies, 2 reviews
The English Language (Hist of Literature) (v. 10) (1975) — Editor, some editions — 55 copies
Investigating English style (1969) 55 copies
Making Sense of Grammar (2004) 54 copies
Walking English: A Journey in Search of Language (2007) 54 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation (2016) 54 copies
Dr Johnson's Dictionary (2004) — Editor — 53 copies, 1 review
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation (2017) 43 copies, 1 review
The Story of Be: A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language (2017) 39 copies, 1 review
Eric Partridge in His Own Words (1980) — Editor — 38 copies
The language revolution (2004) 38 copies
Linguistics, language, and religion (1965) 38 copies
Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works (2020) 35 copies
Discover Grammar (1996) 34 copies
The Penguin Book of Facts (Penguin Reference) (2004) 34 copies
The New Penguin Factfinder (2003) 33 copies
Listen to Your Child: A Parent's Guide to Children's Language (1986) 32 copies, 1 review
A Dictionary of Language (2001) 31 copies, 1 review
Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide (2011) 28 copies
A first dictionary of linguistics and phonetics (1980) 23 copies
The New Penguin Encyclopedia (2002) 21 copies
The Penguin Dictionary of Language (Penguin Reference Books) (1992) 21 copies
Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them (2012) — Introduction, narrator — 18 copies, 1 review
What is Linguistics? (1968) 17 copies
Child Language, Learning and Linguistics: An Overview for the Teaching and Therapeutic Professions (1976) 17 copies
Introduction to Language Pathology (1988) 15 copies, 1 review
Barnes and Noble Encyclopedia (1993) 15 copies
The Penguin Pocket Book of Facts (2005) 14 copies
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch (2017) 14 copies, 1 review
Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories (2025) 14 copies, 3 reviews
Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English (1969) 13 copies
A Date with Language (2023) 11 copies
Grammatical Analysis of Language Disability (1976) — Author — 10 copies
A Glossary of Netspeak and Textspeak (2004) 10 copies
Clinical Linguistics (1981) 9 copies
The Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Quotations (Pocket Penguins) (2005) 9 copies
Nineties Knowledge (1992) 7 copies
Advanced Conversational English (Applied Linguistics and Language Study) (1975) 6 copies
The English Tone of Voice: Essays in intonation, prosody and paralanguage (1975) 6 copies
Thirty years of linguistic evolution studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies
Profiling Linguistic Disability (1992) 5 copies
That's the ticket for soup! : Victorian views on vocabulary as told in the pages of Punch (2020) 5 copies
David Crystal's 50 Questions About English Usage (2021) 5 copies
Kings and Queens (Penguin Pocket) (2006) 5 copies
Introducing linguistics (1992) 5 copies
Famous People (Penguin Pocket) (2006) 4 copies
The Penguin Pocket Spelling Dictionary (Penguin Reference) (2005) 4 copies
Working with Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (1979) 3 copies
Linguistic Encounters with Language Handicap (1987) 3 copies
Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in English (1964) 3 copies
Linguistic Controversies 3 copies, 1 review
Making sense of English usage (1991) 3 copies
Tyndale's Bible : Saint Matthew's Gospel, read in original pronunciation (2013) 3 copies
Languages after Brexit : How the UK Speaks to the World (2018) — Contributor — 3 copies
Language A.to Z. with David Crystal: Bk.1 Key Stage 3 (1991) 2 copies
On This Day (Penguin Pocket) (2006) 2 copies
Tales of the Linguistically Unexpected (2021) 2 copies
The Encyclopedia Codes (2020) 2 copies
Directions in Applied Linguistics (Applied language studies) (1981) 2 copies
The Cambridge paperback encyclopaedia 1 copy
Cambridge enciklopédia (1992) 1 copy
'Things left unsaid: the death of languages' in AFR, 14 Jan 2000 1 copy
Language A to Z : for Key Stages 3 and 4 (1991) 1 copy
You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents 1 copy
“Sound and fury: how pronunciation provokes passionate reactions” 1 copy
Cambridge Factfinder Third Edition 1 copy
Language A to Z (1991) 1 copy
Current Research into Specific Learning Difficulties: Neurological Aspects (1985) 1 copy

David Crystal (3)

Manors (Databank) (1979) 2 copies, 1 review
Castles (Databank) (1979) 2 copies, 1 review
The Vikings (1984) 1 copy, 1 review
Monasteries (1979) 1 copy, 1 review

David Crystal (2) : David (1941-) Crystal

David Crystal (unknown)

Common Knowledge

Disambiguation notice
_The displaced person and the social agency_ was a 1958 thesis and was not by the linguist.