Protonotaria citrea

"Outside of ornithological contexts, 'tweet' has not yet
achieved the status of standard English." Corbett.

by JLS
for the GC

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From an online source on the

Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
ORDER: PASSERIFORMES
FAMILY: PARULIDAE

© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

"A brilliant yellow-orange bird of
southeastern wooded swamps, the Prothonotary Warbler
is a striking sight.
"Call"
"A loud, ringing "tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet" all on one pitch."

From today's World Wide Words, by Quinion:

"Phil Corbett, the Standards Editor at the New York Times, was
reported as having issued a ruling that journalists were not to use
any colloquial term derived from

Twitter

in news stories.

"Tweet",
"tweeting",
"retweet"

and others were banned, reports claimed."

"He wrote that

"outside of ornithological contexts, 'tweet' has not yet
achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is
what we should use in news articles.""

"He suggested using "deft,
English alternatives", such as

"write something on Twitter" or
"post a Twitter update".

"The Twitterati waxed sarcastic about this
and the story was widely reported worldwide."

"A couple of blogs
bothered to contact Mr Corbett, who explained that his e-mail was
guidance, not a ban."

"He argued that he doesn't actually have the
power to issue such decrees. "I can't even convince people to use
'who' and 'whom' correctly," he said."