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My pleasure. I hit Away With Words on my daily rounds and it's always a delight.
Thirty years ago, attempting to be hip, slick and with-it, I said," in an engineering meeting: ""I will memo them."" My friend Bill", an English MA from the University of Chicago," said: ""Memo is a noun. You can send them a memo. You can't memo them."" I was not the first to tread the sleazy thin ice of gramattical posturing. But", at least I wasn't the last ... sigh.