What’s the difference between an aeroplane and an airplane? Answer, one character and easier spelling. Aeroplane, (British) is longer and has a peculiar and irritating vowel construction, making it inefficient to type in chat or on mobiles.

Of course that’s nothing compared to the clod hopping inefficiency of words like through, though, tonight, before and many others. The shortened, mutated versions – thru, tho, 2nite, b4 - work just as well semantically, yet are thumb leaps more efficient in terms of speling (sic).

These are just some of the internet driven changes in word spelling, as opposed to changes in word meaning or inventions of new words, that either endear or irritate people. Now that communication has evolved to rely heavily on Internet chat and texting we shall probably see the virtual extinction of spellings like aeroplane and through. And many others, like accommodation (acomodation?), enough (enuf?) and so on. This is notwithstanding innovations like T9, the predictive text input mode on mobiles. One can easily envisage manufacturers incorporating yet another option into T9 called netspk, say.

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