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Sally F, apologies but I had to giggle, there is the whole alphabet on my phone, so not 'only a certain amount of characters to use' lol

I have started to abbreviate words on text messages (have not long learned to do those lol) so as to save time but don't like to see text speak anywhere else.
Lizx

Empty bottle of milk.

Ah, Ann, my English teacher was a big stickler over the of/have thing I was alllllllways being corrected for it LOL.

Heard a woman with her baby the other day, "Come on let's give you your bockle"

I thought there's little hope for the next generation really.

Obviously

These ones!!!!!!

Off of

Agree Anne and said so on another thread tonight. Why aren't kids taught the Queens English nowadays.........ooops........I'm Irish...........lol

and so many using OF instead of HAVE - e.g. I could of eaten it all, I could of had another one!!! Grrrrrrrrrr

Decimate is to kill one in ten.

Hi Frederick,

I did enjoy that so much. Thank you.

(Should dept. (which is a shortened word) perhaps read as debt?

I deplore the text writing, just feel that it's laziness, but I'm a wrinkly who was taught the basics very thoroughly, in a class of over forty children.

I'm sure there must be many others who sat at desks facing the teacher and the blackboard!!!


Norah

Thanks Frederick...........I'm totally confused now!! Must be an age thing............lol

A Few Hints On Pronunciation.


I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but oh not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through,
Well done! And now you wish perhaps
To learn of these familiar traps.


Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed not bead.
For goodness sake don't call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
They rhyme with suite and straight and dept.


A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother or broth in brother.
And hear is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose,
Just look them up----and goose and choose.


And cork and front and word and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart,
Come, come I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five.

lol well it is youngters of today lol just like it was youngsters of yesterday .
and im still young lol **shush**

Yeah, then they were, but they're not now. The post made it sound like it was the yougsters of today who had invented it. LOL. We were all young once.

summer
mobiles have been out a long time lol
those 20 year olds was kids then lol
Rosex
edited
omg my keys are playing tricks on me pmsl
need new specs me duz

lol sorry sally my post was ment to say suzy
wmsl *goes red)
Rosex
i shall edit

Um... youngsters didn't think it up. They might think they invented it but it actually started with those that are now in their late twenties early thirties...not exactly youngsters LOL. However, the younger generation do seem to think that it's the correct way to spell. Must make an English Teacher's life hell.

In digital spy forums, the following is included in the posting tips:

- To avoid misunderstandings, please don't use 'txt spk' and try to ensure your post is relatively typo-free.

what really irritates me is


writing a email to a work colleague and not being able to think of an appropriate alternative to lol

imho. My lazy way of saying 'in my humble opinion'. ;)