when I post to the internet, I feel I am having a conversation, rather than writing a communication, and therefore pay little attention to either my spelling or grammar. Sorry if this offends, but life is too short to eat a dictionary. (That said, I was an adult literacy tutor for many years, so it's not that I can't spell it's more that I can't type!) The only real difficulty if you can call it that, are cultural ones. When I read some threads I don't have a clue what they are about, and I am sure that the same is true when folks look at u.k threads - but it is getting easier as time goes by.