Simon Horobin

Simon Horobin (born 22 September 1972) is a British philologist and author.

Life and career
Horobin graduated from the University of Sheffield. He is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College.

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut, Harvard University, and Charles University. He has also acted as honorary secretary for the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.

Horobin has appeared on several radio and television programmes to discuss linguistic issues and has been interviewed for various articles in numerous national papers. In 2018, he gave a talk on his book The English Language: A Very Short Introduction at Google London.

Selected publications
===Books ===
 * The Language of the Chaucer Tradition – D.S. Brewer, 2003
 * Chaucer's Language – Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
 * Studying the History of Early English – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
 * Does Spelling Matter? – Oxford University Press, 2013
 * How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language – Oxford University Press, 2016
 * The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2018
 * Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Oxford University Press, 2019

Articles

 * "Spelling It Out: Is It Time English Speakers Loosened Up"? (2014)
 * "So Trump Makes Spelling Errors. In the Twitter Age, Whoo Doesn't"? (2017)
 * "The True Importance of Good Spelling." (2017)
 * "Trump's Covfefe Takes Hold in the Land of the Spelling Bee."