Dare a Yank intrude on this cobber kaffee klatch -with apologies to Ontario and Harlow.

speaking of Harlw -- does anyone remember a movie actress from before your time (and probably even mine) named Jean Harlow? She was a very sexy blonde who belived if you had it, flaunt it.

She was introduce to Claudette Colbert (Same period, much more refined, pronounced her name as if she was French: Cole-Bear). says Jean: "How do you do, Miss Kohl-bert." Claudeyye replies, "It's Colbair, dear, the T is silent as in Harlot."

Anyhow, chalk up one for the States. And by the way, if we'e giong to be literal and pedantic (one of my favorite things in the world to do) 'outside of the US or the UK doesn't mean outside of the Us or outside of the UK. The uS or the UK in this instance is a geographical unit, outside of which there clearly are everybody who has responded so far exwcept McGrath and me, against which two I count eight 'furriners'.