> I could absolutely conceive of a situation where a certain determiner phrase gets used so much in a community that an abbreviation becomes accepted as a new d

> I could absolutely conceive of a situation where a certain determiner phrase gets used so much in a community that an abbreviation becomes accepted as a new determiner... In fact, if anybody knows of any such instances I'd love to hear about them. "Hella" in bay area (especially east bay) dialect (more common c. 2000, but you can still hear it today): "There were hella people at the party!"