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

Tristan scripsit:

> Hols=holidays. (I thought that was pretty well-known. I also never
> would've thought of spelling 'hall' as 'hol'.)
"Hols" is completely unknown in the U.S., except to people who read English
books about schools.  For most U.S. people, "hols" and "halls" would indeed
be homonyms (though not for me).

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