ocircle wrote:

iAurora wrote:

I end up having to look up just to be sure I'm getting them right.

Like, "rend".  Gosh, I'd never even heard that word. ^_^  Or "interment", "bungling", or "precipitous" -- yeah, I can sortof guess them in context, but without context I have to resort to a dictionary.

I've been living in the states for something like 13 years now...

I've never said that

If I could change one thing on this forum, I'd go for positioning of those Edit/Quote links. The way they are now is quite confusing and I've noticed enough misquoting mistakes that could be caused by this while reading this forum. I don't say this particular one was caused by positioning issue, by the way. I believe it was not.