no doubt curmudgeons in the past railed against "god be with you" being shortened into good bye

and where convinced that english was going to hell in a hand basket it that sort of stuff was going to be allowed.

do think there was a time when chitterlings were call chitterlings, and not chit'lins?

was there once a name Saint John, (before it became Syngen?)

i remember in my lifetime, telephone--who says telephone any more? its phone( both noun and verb!) and cel phone.

i still speak of dialing, but its been 20 years since i owned a phone with a dial. (my cel has touch screen, not even a (numeric) pad)(no its not an i-phone)

language is imprecise.. it carry relics, and it sprouts new words for new idea, new situations. i'm gunna, (like gonna but more gutteral,--closer i think to how most say the word) sign off now!

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