autograph

[Greg Pulliam]

An African (not African-American) student in my American English
Language class reports being asked at least twice in Florida and
Tennessee for her "autograph" on a credit card receipt.  She wants to
know if this is a regional usage.  I told her I didn't think so--that
now and then clerks here in Chicago have said this to me, and that it
was probably just coincidence that she heard it twice within a few
days in the South.

But I told her that I'd write and see if anyone on the list disagreed
with me.  Any takers?
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Greg
greg at pulliam.org