{"id":1782,"date":"2023-06-14T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:45:08","slug":"hi-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/hi-both\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hi both”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently noticed that I have been receiving emails, addressed to multiple recipients, with the salutation<\/p>\r\n

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Hi both<\/em>,<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

In fact I appear to have 34 of them in one of my many inboxes, including two received from different authors today. For me, this is sharply ungrammatical, though I am not sure why. Both<\/em> is unobjectionable in subject or object position (e.g.,\u00a0 Both liked limoncello,\u00a0<\/em>She fancies both<\/em>, etc.) so I am not sure why it is bad in a salutation. A very informal survey of the people who have sent it to me shows two speakers for whom English is their second language (though both have extremely high proficiency) but also several native speakers too. Any ideas?<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently noticed that I have been receiving emails, addressed to multiple recipients, with the salutation Hi both, In fact I appear to have 34 of them in one of my many inboxes, including two received from different authors today. For me, this is sharply ungrammatical, though I am not sure why. Both is unobjectionable … Continue reading ““Hi both””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-language","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}