Alexander Hariz has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and had been a Professor of electronics engineering at the University of South Australia for 29 year, until he retired in 2021. He has published extensively in technical areas, and has an excellent command of English. This is his first foray into English linguistics, a topic that is close to his heart. Given that the book has copious amounts of input from language experts, he feels confident that it will make a good read, guaranteed.