ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some key features of English in the first decades of the twenty-first century. It focuses on how words are coined through morphemic addition (taking parts of words and reusing them for new purposes). The chapter also investigates the impact of the internet and of digital literacy on the speech and writing of a generation born in the twenty-first century, and it concludes with a provocation about how English will continue to change in a multicultural classroom and society.
