'Brexit means Brexit' says Mrs May, the new Tory leader and therefore the new Prime Minister. Only it doesn't mean brexit, because brexit is a made up word and therefore means nothing, or 'mothing' if I was to use the same rules. There is a tendency to shorten words to help us capture the phrase in one word which probably took off alongside texting as we tried to cram a meaningful conversation into 160 characters.
If you have ever wondered, and I'm sure this often crosses your mind, the 160 character restriction was because the orginal text messages were sent down 'spare' 128K capacity of a digital GSM phone line and the encoding at the time would not allow any more data to be sent. So now you know. What has always interested me is that this meant that sending SMS messages cost nothing to send but we were charged substantially more than that.
Our new PM gave a good speech yesterday, sounding quite statesmanlike and concilatory so it will be interesting if she can keep this up over the coming EU politics - and that is going to take up so much of her time.
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