YOU would think, sometimes, that Twitter, was actually a machine designed to generate new insults, determine whether they are hate speech or not, and then have them struck from the dictionary all together. It’s a way, if you like, of getting rid of words, because surely there are too many of them – around 172,000 of the pesky things in the Oxford English Dictionary. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16237573.Put_the_gammon_knife_down__We__39_re_butchering_our_language_/