Geoffrey Sampson


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Questions I am Often Asked about Language and Languages

In my work as a panelist for the Ask-a-Linguist public information service, I have found that there are some recurring issues about language and languages which very many people are interested in, and which I would be glad to discuss but I never have time to cover properly with individual questioners.

As time permits, therefore, I plan to write web pages on some of these topics. The ones I have put together to date are these:

Note that the topics of these pages are not topics on which I could claim to be a real expert. They are topics where my experience has shown that there is considerable public appetite to know some of the facts, and I think I know just enough to help to feed that appetite. It seems good to me that people find language interesting, so I would like to encourage that interest.

I should be delighted if true experts who find mistakes in what I have written would care to get in touch with corrections, which I will use (with acknowledgments) to improve these pages.



Geoffrey Sampson

last changed 14 Nov 2017