The word flashprenuptial may never be accepted as standard English.

It is too early to tell.

The term was invented here yesterday and less than 48 hours have elapsed since the first Technorati search for it.

The young word does have a chance at survival, however. After all, flashmob is already in frequent use by many who are well-acquainted with standard English, and is well-defined at Wikipedia, the Red Cross for information.

The bride whose flashprenuptial took place this week on twitter actually referred to "flashmob" in one of her tweets, although Howard Rheingold in his seminal book about the same phenomenon writes of smart mobs. He chronicles their genesis at http://www.smartmobs.com.

Other terms from a world wholly unknown a generation ago marched into the language apace with flashmob -- virtual community and metaverse for example.

While shifts in meaning, like the use of "twitter" as a verb referring to text-based online communication, are attempting to elbow their way into the language of day-to-day life.

When we recall these words that were new yesterday or that meant something else altogether day before yesterday, is there not a sense in which we are already remembering the future?

Change cannot, I hope, occur more quickly than that.