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Old Dec 5, 2022 | 7:04 pm
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Originally Posted by scubadu
(10/9/22) … wife has finally gotten targeted with a generous upgrade offer from Amex Gold (personal) to Amex Platinum, without any "lifetime language."…
Originally Posted by scubadu
(11/23/22) … Wife just received a NLL pop offer for Platinum upgrade (from personal gold). …
Don’t mean to be intrusive but enquiring minds want to know*. Two offers for the same account? Ever swing at either of those pitches? Did the train make the stop? (Refer to posts on this thread in March 2022 for analogies.)

Originally Posted by scubadu
… Any experience with immediately contacting Amex and having them delay the shipping of the card by one week?
Is that a possibility? …
Sorry I couldn’t help with those questions, no personal experience. As a datapoint, for everyone’s edification, please tell us how you managed the situation. Thank you.

(* “Enquiring minds want to know.” No use in inquiring why. There’s a tipping point at which a famous phrase becomes a cliché. The well known ad slogan for The National Enquirer supermarket tabloid – “Enquiring minds want to know” - passed that point long ago. The Enquirer trademarked the slogan in 1981.)

(* Enquire and Inquire : Used differently in British English and American English
Enquire is more common in British English. Inquire is more common in American English.
Enquiry and Inquiry : The noun forms
I’d like to make an enquiry about the cost of your hotel rooms.
The police inquiry is almost completed as they have questioned all of the witnesses.
Why the confusion between inquire and enquire?
Well, ENquire is the Old French (enquerre) form which itself stemmed from the Latin ‘inquirere’ (that give us the alternative – INquire) . It seems both had pretty current usage since written English became a thing. Some people feel that there is a difference in meaning and that ‘enquire’ means to ‘ask a question while ‘inquire’ means to investigate but over time this has become another one of those blurry distinctions in English.)
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