Crystal Tipps and Alistair Crystal Tipps and Alistair Crystal Tipps and Alistair is a British cartoon produced for the BBC. The title characters are a girl and her dog who are joined by their friends Birdie and Butterfly. There are 50 five-minute episodes and a 20-minute Christmas special, all first shown between 1971 and 1974. It was created by Hilary Hayton and Graham McCallum. Michael Grafton-Robinson, a BBC producer went independent setting up Q3 of London to produce the series. The animation was done by Richard Taylor Cartoons, who were also contracted to make the Charley Says and the Protect and Survive public information
David Crystal difficult to spell. His companion book, "Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation" came out in 2015 from Profile Books (UK) and St. Martin's Press (USA). Crystal is a proponent of a new field of study, Internet linguistics, and has published "Language and the Internet" (2001) on the subject. Crystal's book "" (2008) focused on text language and its impact on society. From 2001 to 2006, Crystal served as the Chairman of Crystal Reference Systems Limited, a provider of reference content and Internet search and advertising technology. The company's iSense and Sitescreen products are based upon the patented