When I clicked off the post,
the little widow (containing cedilla) was on the screen.
Something else I have to learn: it was under, rather
than on top of the posting.

Golly Day! You've taught me more in one post than I have ever seen. THANK YOU. I have only been using a computer (other than writing letters and posting student grades) for about 2 years. I am totally self taught: bought the think, plugged it in, and have been asking for help. I will be learning for...

[quote="beck123"]There is a tremendous breaking-up of English [i]today[/i], never mind Latin 1500 years ago: it just doesn't reach the textbooks. And it's inevitable, so we may as well revel in it. Just imagine John Kerry trying to have a conversation with an inner-city kid who was raised ...

[quote="beck123"]And founded with Alexander Graham Bell's money, in fact. Bell had two daughters, one of whom married a Grosvener (and if you follow NG, you'll recognize that name) and the other David Fairchild, a well-known biologist and founder of the early-20th-Century seed importation ...

[quote="Dr. Goodword"][i]Pall-mall[/i] was originally a croquet-like game involving hitting a ball with a mallet through a ring, from Fr. [i]pallemaille[/i], itself from Italian [i]pallamaglio[/i], from palla "ball" + maglio "mallet." Legend has it that [i]Pall Mall[/i]...

[quote="beck123"]The RC meaning is probably the same as the first definition - a cloth covering the body, in this case Christ's body. The parallel seems obvious to me, but what do I know. I haven't been able to figure out how to add an avatar to my profile, yet. Can somebody help? We need ...

[quote="Slava"][quote="beck123"]I haven't been able to figure out how to add an avatar to my profile, yet. Can somebody help? We need to liven up the visuals in these fora.[/quote]I believe all you need to do is link to an address that has the picture you want to use. You do this...

I definitely need an avatar.

I am most definitely posting from the frozen state of Knebraska where the temp right now is 5 deg. But it is knot knockwurst but peaknut and jelly. Don't know how to use a Wifi thingie. /We definitely have wickedwichets called weather. Hurting us seriously the winter. I like the wicket wichet: carwi...

TWENTY-FOUR same rules I learned: spell out 1-9 and numerals for the rest, and never begin a sentence with a numeral. Of course Lincoln's "Four score and ten years ago...." would probably beg to differ. Todays world is a different one, for sure, and the movie "10" started it (yuk...

Now that is a new one on me: cow patty bingo. We have lots of kinds of bingo, but never seen that one: how's it work (I am almost afraid to ask)? At one time our city had the world's largest stockyards, before the beef industry moved the processing out of the city to the rural communities where a be...

Skinem:
Being a Grand Panjandrum in my presence,
I bow to Your Excellency.

SCW 1217 Glad to meet you. Must be nice to be a Floridian. Beck, who came with me from another 'dead' site is from Jacksonville. I live in the Frozen Wastes of the Great Plains and hate every snowflake. Pretty yes, but after this year: a mess: ice everywhere. I too love photography. I retired early ...

Not bad, not bad: I like that.
I think I will try to remember it: "proof readers handicap".

I sometimes think I am the one handicapped, however,
seeing all the mistakes must be a "condition" of some sort
and it makes me ill.

Thanks for the reference, S. Those are really good puns. I even thought some very funny. Much better than others I've witnessed in the past which are just plays on words someone else made, or twists of words. These are in full sentences and make sense. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings (much, S...