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==Career== Crystal studied English at [[University College London]] between 1959 and 1962,<ref name="camb" /> and was a researcher under [[Randolph Quirk]] between 1962 and 1963, working on the [[Survey of English Usage]].<ref name="camb" /><ref name="bangor">{{cite web | url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/davidcrystal.php.en | title=Staff Profile of Professor David Crystal | publisher=Prifysgol Bangor University | access-date=22 May 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117040829/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/davidcrystal.php.en | archive-date=17 November 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Since then he has lectured at [[Bangor University]] and the [[University of Reading]] and is an honorary professor of [[linguistics]] at Bangor.<ref name="GuardProfile">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidcrystal | title=David Crystal profile | work=[[The Guardian]] | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> Retired from full-time academia, he works as a writer, editor and consultant, and contributes to television and radio broadcasts. His association with the [[BBC]] ranges from, formerly, a [[BBC Radio 4]] series on language issues to, more recently, podcasts on the [[BBC World Service]] website for people learning English.<ref name=bio /> Crystal was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1995 and became a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] in 2000.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.crystalreference.com/David_Crystal/biography.htm|title=Biography|publisher=Crystal Reference|year=2005|access-date=15 October 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026041231/http://www.crystalreference.com/David_Crystal/biography.htm|archive-date=26 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aidanbell.com/html/hkbell/DCrystal.htm|title=David Crystal|author=Hazel Bell|publisher=Journal of Scholarly Publishing|date=1 October 1999|access-date=15 October 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929125559/http://www.aidanbell.com/html/hkbell/DCrystal.htm|archive-date=29 September 2007}}</ref> He is also a Founding Fellow of the [[Learned Society of Wales]] and is a Fellow of the [[Chartered Institute of Linguists]]. His many academic interests include [[English language learning and teaching]], [[clinical linguistics]], [[forensic linguistics]], [[language death]], "ludic linguistics" (Crystal's [[neologism]] for the study of language play),<ref>David Crystal, [http://www.crystalreference.com/DC_articles/Linguistics11.pdf "Carrolludicity"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227064147/http://www.crystalreference.com/DC_articles/Linguistics11.pdf |date=27 February 2008 }}</ref> [[stylistics (field of study)|style]], English [[literary genre|genre]], [[Shakespeare]], [[index (publishing)|indexing]], and [[lexicography]]. He is the Patron of the [[International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language]] (IATEFL), honorary president of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ciep.uk/about/honorary-members/|title=CIEP Honorary Members|access-date=3 March 2020}}</ref> and Patron of the UK National Literacy Association.<ref name="NewSci">{{cite web | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19091-innovation-smarter-books-aim-to-win-back-the-kids.html#.VV8NYE9Viko | title=Innovation: Smarter books aim to win back the kids | work=[[new Scientist]] | date=25 June 2010 | access-date=22 May 2015 | last=Marks | first=Paul}}</ref> He is a consultant for ''Babel - The Language Magazine'', for which he has also written articles.<ref name="babel">{{cite web | url=http://www.babelzine.com/ | title= Babel The Language Magazine | publisher=babelzine.com | access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref>
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