Yes, I have the Adam/atom/at 'em merger!

Oh, it was "up and Adam" for me. I had no idea why we were invoking Adam; I just accepted it.

Breakdown/break down, login/log in are not perfect homophones in that they have a difference in stress which you can hear if you say, "break down that box" vs. "I'm having a breakdown." I'm usually easygoing with language and orthographic change, but I'd prefer we keep the space here.

Oh!!! I like to think of this as a continental pronunciation like "ee" is the continental pronunciation of i. How do you feel about "tall a"?

Do you mean <a> alone as opposed to as an element of a single grapheme <ay> <ea> etc?? Why not "A" if so?

I have too much ruth for that.

Well, the very existence of the words underwhelm and overwhelm would point to "whelm" having undergone semantic change. I prefer to say "'whelmed' once meant 'capsized'... Thank you for this lovely bit of etymology and forgive my pedantry! Wishing you a ruthful day.

They will definitely not forget that lesson!

Sounds like you are actually pretty good at listening to these things!

Oh, you haven't heard? They all died in the pandemic. It was awful, but families are soldiering forward without them.

What is the GLP view of echolalia?

They are human-piloted airplanes. And t.v. news is uncritically referring to them as drones while airing footage of airplanes. Wild indeed!

I was so happy the day I realized that the Spanish word for "fork", tenedor, can be glossed as a "holder" or "haver".