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TWITTER SLOWLY ERADICATING TRADITIONAL BRITISH WORDS

By Jordan Kensington,  Lizzie Stephens,  Lucy Coleman ,  Ashley Davies   TWITTER SLOWLY ERADICATING TRADITIONAL BRITISH WORDS... Traditionally British words such as ‘cripes’ and ‘balderdash’ are dying out amid the popularity of shortened text-style terms, it has emerged. Experts found a significant decrease in the use of words which our parents and grandparents would have uttered on an almost daily basis. Other words which have fallen by the wayside amid the LOL generation are ‘rambunctious ‘, ‘verily’, ‘salutations’ and ‘betwixt’. You only have to look on Twitter to see evidence...