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Texting Has Added A New Dimension To Language Use, But Its Long-term Impact Is Negligible. It Is Not A Disaster.

Spellings Are Made By People. Dictionaries - Eventually - Reflect Popular Choices.

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.

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.

Word Books Traditionally Focus On Unusual And Quirky Items. They Tend To Ignore The Words That Provide The Skeleton Of The Language, Without Which It Would Fall Apart, Such As 'and' And 'what,' Or Words That Provide Structure To Our Conversation, Such As 'hello.