In Britain alone,more than one million mobile phone text messages are sent every hour,so the Concise Oxford Dictionary has decided to include the shorthand language in its revised edition published on Thursday.

• 仅在英国，每小时就有一百万多条移动电话短消息被发送出去。于是《简明英文词典》决定在其周四出版的修订版里收录这些缩略语。