"Silver Tsunami" (first "boomer" files for Social Security)

[Stephen Montgomery]

Okay, I'm assuming the string of gibberish I received from myself just now
was thanks to a problem with UTF-8 on the list's end, so let's try again,
from the top.

First message:
Just to timidly poke a dead horse, while I have little interest in which
word is better, I pronounce the 't' in tsunami. Might be, mind you, down to
my acquaintance with German's initial /ts/ (although I still can't properly
master the /sts/ of 'Szene' et al).

And, while I'm at it, does anyone but me pronounce the 'm' of 'mnemonic'?



Second message:
Apologies for the double post, but I forgot to mention something else. Did
it occur to anyone else that the choice of "tsunami" in "silver tsunami"
might have had something to do with the alliterative quality for (what I'm
assuming is) the majority of speakers?

[So make that apologies for the triple post and spamming your inboxes with
reams of nonsense.]

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