And speaking of words, linguistic fun fact: the sort of language people use when texting? They had that in Victorian times, only then it was called emblematic poetry. Like this one, from the 1840s:
An Essay to Miss Catherine Jay
He says he loves U 2 X S,
U R virtuous and Y's,
In X L N C U X L
All others in his i's.
U R virtuous and Y's,
In X L N C U X L
All others in his i's.
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