Dear All - this message (by Dan Clayton) has just appeared on the EngLang list (for A-level English Language teachers):

Paul Kerswill in The Sun today: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4359146/Tweets-and-texting-dont-mean-falling-standardsjust-that-language-is-changing.html

And a few others assembled here: http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/queen-is-dead.html

dan