Meanings
- informaluncountableThe abbreviated, simplified form of language used in text messages, which often elides vowels and omits punctuation and capitalisation.
For 40 years the society has championed good English – and hasn't been above the occasional criticism of the Queen's own standards of English – but it has finally conceded it cannot survive in the era of textspeak and Twitter.
2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016Synonyms: textese
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe abbreviated, simplified form of language used in text messages, which often elides vowels and omits punctuation and capitalisation.
Origin
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textspeak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/textspeak
“textspeak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/textspeak. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “textspeak,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/textspeak.
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