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Catchword for “textonym”

Catchword: textonym

Filed under: English

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Meg Kingston introduces us to the textonym. That’ll be the set of words generated by a particular sequence of key presses on a mobile phone, when the phone’s software is predicting what word you want. For example, keys 2-2-4-3 can signify ache, acid or cage. Press 7-4-6-6-3-7 for phones, simmer and sinner.

Article or document title:
“Strange but true tales from the world of science” (URL)

Article, document, publication, web site:
New Scientist

Date of publication:
Dec. 4, 2004

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