Jon Stewart Congress Sept 11 First Responders

From this, i would tentatively conclude that (1. ) the vernacular pronunciation of the name became a single-syllable jon fairly early on, and (2. ) the john spelling might have originally been a. I was taught, lo, many years ago, that you should use a comma before the name of the person (s) you address. Therefore, hello, john is correct.

Commenting 12 years later. From the perspective of descriptive linguistics, i would say that thanks john is used by native speakers, moreso thanks john! when you use it, don't use. Is i am sat bad english? I believe it is incorrect and instead either the present continuous i am sitting or the predicate adjective i am seated should be used. I hear this quite often, howe