I'm a newbie, and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, roles, and other cool stuff.

This week I have a bunch of listener comments on different topics, and then we'll talk

about words related to taxes and some surprising findings about last week's sufficiently

serensified, family-like story.

Last week I talked about how back in middle English, the pronouns mine and vine led people

to also end their other pronouns with N sounds, giving us his in, her in, our in, urine,

and so on.

Well a follow-up here goes by Ergun, Macedon, ERRG, told me more about a recent use.

Daniel Drew was a New York stock speculator in the mid-1800s, and he's famous for this

saying about the nature of short-telling.

He who sells what isn't his in must buy it back or go to prison.

And it seems like rhyming is where it still finds the occasional use even in modern times,

because a listener who goes by Rady Daddy on Macedon pointed me to a Nick Lowe song from the

1970s called So It Goes, with the line, on his arm was a tight skinned vision, wonder

why she ain't mine, she is his in.

Fun stuff, and you can hear a clip of it on YouTube.

And then Rady Daddy also had an interesting comment about the loneliness segment.

He wrote, I suspect Tolkien, a linguist, was very aware of the older meaning of loneliness

when he called Aerobor the Lonely Mountain in the Hobbit.

Could be, it wouldn't surprise me, and thanks for the interesting comments.

Very few people outside of those who work for the IRS take much pleasure in taxes.

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