We seem so desperate to crush our language these days.  It seems inevitable that in cramming our thoughts into 140 characters, and abbreviating the English language into a new staccato short hand for texting we are losing some of our lexicon.
Huge chunks actually.
And while many people will tell you that we can get by quite nicely on our limited vocabulary, I can’t help feel a sense of loss for the hundreds of words that die out daily.
Where is the campaign against the extinction of rare words such as ‘twixt’ and …