kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote: > This doesn't really answer the OP's question of when it entered > *colloquial* speech. Still, I think it is notable that the mishna et > al chose to use heh-shin-mem rather than aleph-dalet-nun-yod. See Ki Tavo 28:58 " ... l'yirah es hashem ..." spelled as heh-shin-mem. David Riceman