Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development