Pithy: Inside the urge to shorten
By Erin McKean | October 31, 2010 | Boston Globe
“…The English philologist John Horne Tooke considered language clipping only natural, with “Letters, like soldiers, being very apt to desert and drop off in a long march.”…”
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/10/31/pithy?mode=PF
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