On the one hand, I love the occasional use of a well-balanced, stretchable word in a text message; stretched words make written and spoken language more emotive (e.g., "From Hollywooood, heeerrrre ...

My 12-year-old daughter looovvveeesss to stretch out spoken and written words by adding extra letters. When I read about a new study (Gray, Danforth, & Dodds, 2020) that analyzed the use of ...

Fight against Franglais! French language website creates list of English words it wants to ban. By LEE MORAN Updated: 12:29 EDT, 12 October 2011 . 140. View comments.