Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England where he attended St Mary's College from 1951. He grew up bilingual in Welsh and English, which influenced his approach to language education. Crystal studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962. He was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, … Wikipedia
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David Crystal was a bilingual infant, attending primary school in Holyhead, North Wales, where both English and Welsh were used, pupils generally at ease in both. www.aidanbell.com/html/hkbell/DCrystal.htm
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