[Magdalen] Invites

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 18:17:18 UTC 2016


Up here we tend to ask for  'your S.I.N.' or 'S.I.N number' pronounced 
'Sin'.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/13/2016 12:40 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/13/2016 12:21:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>
> So-sha
>
> Each time she asked louder, as if I were  old&deaf.
>
> Wassya SOsha?
> Ya SOsha?
> YOUR SO-SHA  ???>>>>>>
>   
> Maybe an African American teller?
>   
> Anyway, the shorthand, "social" for Social Security in the USA
> is firmly entrenched.
>   
> I am bothered more by obvious grammatical/spelling mistakes such
> as "Febuary" for February, the use of adjectives as adverbs, and
> the complete USA atrophy of "whom" in the direction of "who."
>   
> But, as others are quick to put out, changes in the language are
> inevitable and cannot be stopped, much as we might like.
>   
> After all, the USA is in the midst of a major language transformation
> with the "Northern Cities Vowel Shift" (Labov).  Who could have
> predicted that?
>   
>   
>   
> David Strang.
>
>
>



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