Are words being tweeted out of existence?

[Jerry E Kane]

An interesting article appeared in the OxfordWords blog recently.  
 
_http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/12/verily-this-tomfoolery-must-be-q
uashed/_ (http://
blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/12/verily-this-tomfoolery-must-be-quashed/) 
 
According to the _Daily Mail_ 
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053670/Cripes-Traditional-British-words-face-extinction-text-speak-norm.html) , 
a survey carried out for a book tie-in to the BBC2  TV programme _Planet 
Word_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015h1xb)   showed that nearly 75% of 
the 2,000 people polled believed that ‘longer words  have become outdated 
since text messages and social networking websites gained  popularity.’
 
 
Jerry E Kane
Los Angeles

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