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Story today on the BBC, from analysis of 500 word stories written by UK kids between 5 and 13 for a competition 'Words including email, mobile and Facebook are in decline, it said.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32902170

(Interesting that mobile is declining, suggests the distinction is lost in a world of tablet, laptop and phone use where desktops are a thing of the past domestically)

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> (Interesting that mobile is declining, suggests the distinction is lost in a world of tablet, laptop and phone use where desktops are a thing of the past domestically)

I would say that mobile is declining because land lines basically don't exist anymore, so we can just say phone instead of mobile phone.

>land lines basically don't exist anymore //

Everyone I know has access to a landline (UK).

True the only reason I have a landline really is that you can't get a broadband internet connection on its own that's cheaper than phone + broadband.

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