students started to send me emails with the salutation, 'HiBob.'* Now they all do it.
Donal:
You let them get away with it. Case closed.
The point is that I'm not sure if things have changed grammar-wise so that this new form is correct; so I can't admonish them until I hear from the MLA or Webster or Heidegger: whoever knows.
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