Txt lingo earns luv poems £££
Sunday, May 6, 2007
A LOVE-STRUCK pensioner has come up trumps in a poetry contest with a difference: the poems had to be written in mobile phone "text speak".
Eileen Bridge, 68, a grandmother from Accrington, Lancashire, won £350 in the "txt laureate" competition, after she took second place with an ode to her husband of six months.
The entry read: "O hart tht sorz, My luv adorz, He mAks me liv, He mAks me giv, Myslf 2 him, As my luv porz."
The retired teacher was only beaten by a London law student who scooped the top prize of £1,000 for writing: "Not even the wet rustle of rain can dampen today. Your text buoys me above oil-rainbow puddles like a paper boat, so that even soaked to the skin, I am grinning." Reuters
Eileen Bridge, 68, a grandmother from Accrington, Lancashire, won £350 in the "txt laureate" competition, after she took second place with an ode to her husband of six months.
The entry read: "O hart tht sorz, My luv adorz, He mAks me liv, He mAks me giv, Myslf 2 him, As my luv porz."
The retired teacher was only beaten by a London law student who scooped the top prize of £1,000 for writing: "Not even the wet rustle of rain can dampen today. Your text buoys me above oil-rainbow puddles like a paper boat, so that even soaked to the skin, I am grinning." Reuters
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