Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

Tristan wrote:
> Hols=holidays. (I thought that was pretty well-known. I also never
> would've thought of spelling 'hall' as 'hol'.)
Well, my dialect merges /O/ and /A/.  I admit "hol" would be a very odd
spelling of "hall", but the only other word I could think of that it
might possibly represent was "hole".

And I've never heard "hol" for "holiday".  Dialectal variation, I
suppose.

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