So you said

So. So! So-so So there. So,then. So then. So there. So what? So you say. So that's it! So's your old man. Just so. So far, so good. Say it isn't so. The idea is so obvious. Never been so happy. And so on and so forth.

I wish the Word Mavens were still in business at their lexicaid stand, which, after many years, Random House unwisely disassembled. They would understand my current puzzlement.To this very day, if you tell Google to look up( "edward engberg" [w/quote marks] word mavens) you will be treated to some good stuff from these young women. To see the best of our exchange s one must add "meta" w/o quote marks. the very best of the exchanges seems to been taken down from the site. This exchange was prompted by one of our grandchildren's insistence that Prufrock should have begun "Let us go then you and me" and not as it stands. I hadn't thought much about the word "so", until a lecturer on the TED circuit got me to thinking about things that I hadn't thought much about. He did this by introducing the notion of Shakespeare as a know-it-all child, and pupil in a grammar school. One tends to think of Shakespeare as having come full-blown from the head of Zeus, (How's that for fresh imagery?) and not as a nine-year-old being admonished to pick up his pencils. Or quills. Whatever.