Don't even talk to me about place names... I grew up in the southwest and Colorado, and am now a Washington, (Northwest, not DC,) transplant. Everything here seems to be named in Tlingit. It took me years to get my mouth around Cle Elum and Puyallup and Tulalip, and I still can't properly pronounce Oyehut!

I have recently accepted defeat in my attempt to re-introduce the proper use of 'nauseated', 'nauseous', and'nauseating'.

Is anyone else a little disturbed by the vicious trend of using letters instead of numbers, and excessive phoneticism? Maybe our kids were a little too hooked on phonix. Frankly, it gives me the creeps!