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A new study from Verizon Wireless says North Carolina finds itself in the midst of "a text messaging phenomena."

The study of 12 Southeastern states says sending text messages - particularly popular among the teen and college crowds - has jumped more than 600 percent in the last 24 months among Tar Heel customers.

Turns out that Greensboro is the state's second "textiest city" - at 76.91 million messages sent in April - behind Charlotte (103 million) and just ahead of Shelby (76.9 million) .

Overall that month, North Carolina ranked fourth with 526.9 million messages, behind Tennessee (991.7 million) , Texas (769.1 million) and Georgia (683.6 million) .

The region's customers totaled 4.1 billion messages in April.

To assist the text-messaging impaired, Verizon's new release included a 24-page "TXTionary."

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In words: That's all for now. Some day soon everything will be acronyms. Don't text me back.

Contact Donald W. Patterson at 373-7027 or don.patterson@news-record.com