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

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

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

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

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.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun