An introductory note, deliberately and with reason placed at the top: I wrote what's below after following the thread to its end or so I thought. I was under the impression, as (I suspect) were many others here that the OP had written the

Tony, Have you "lost track" of my questions in the post you were replying to while you were replying lol? So, when you tell me that I can determine the ... an apostrophe "s".) and expecting that I care that much. Previously you

Your statement that "(e)ven general comments on a structured approach to improving\learning in this area would be helpful" seemed pretty ... agree that my suggestion is a good one, but your claim that it was unresponsive to your request

I've given up waiting for Ger's reply, so I have ... in any way racist, the reference sticks in my craw. You understand rightly. It's a precious variant on the traditional N-word. No doubt you remember Jimmy Rabitte's apercu from

French it is - à la (two words) No need to italicise. It means 'after the style of, in the ... the feminine form of the construction, strictly a reference to a masculine word should employ 'au' instead - au gratin. True, but I wonder

Claude Brunet: Could anybody explain to me the differences and usages of : - Large, great, big .. # GREAT, BIG, LARGE refer to size, extent, and degree. BIG is the # most general and most colloquial word, LARGE is somewhat more # formal, and GREAT