more on recency

[James Harbeck]

By the way, for another good example of the recency illusion, visit
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4094142/
and read the comments, particularly this one:

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Something that caught my eye is :"...so book 'em...". We hear so much
about the bastardization of the English language but I never realized
that the culprits have always been around. I don't know how old this
is but most of the airline ads I have seen from the 1950s and 60s
have used what can only be called 'proper' language.
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I'm not a member of this board, so I couldn't respond and tell the
poster how "'em" is of loger pedigree in English than "them."

James Harbeck.

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