{"id":1049,"date":"2014-03-31T18:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2014-03-31T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:55:50","slug":"thank-you-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/31\/thank-you-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you so much!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was watching American Idol a few weeks ago, and I suddenly noticed that almost all the contestants said “Thank you so much” when the judges complimented them. “Thank you so much”, “Thank you so much”…<\/p>\n

And I began to hear it everywhere; on TV, on the radio, in restaurants and stores. I started wondering when that phrase had become popular. What ever happened to “Thank you very much”, or even just “Thank you”? I think this is a recent trend, maybe within the past 5-10 years. <\/p>\n

And how much is “so much”? “So” used to be an adverb meaning <\/a>“in the manner indicated, described or implied”, but it has also assumed an informal definition of very or extremely. “That was so good!”, “It’s so hot today”.<\/p>\n

Listen for it, and I think you’ll be surprised how much it is used. <\/p>\n

Thank you so much for reading my blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was watching American Idol a few weeks ago, and I suddenly noticed that almost all the contestants said “Thank you so much” when the judges complimented them. “Thank you so much”, “Thank you so much”… And I began to hear it everywhere; on TV, on the radio, in restaurants and stores. I started wondering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}