Yeah, I was struck by the end-rhymes, "good wish" and "Eng-LISH" also and was going to comment, but Mr. Fly beat me to it. Well spotted.

David, you seem to be fixated on my "Engrish frute" bit of whimsy, undoubtedly hoping to brand this as some sort of racial slur on my part so you can divert attention from yourself. Sorry, Charlie! No joy there. You've mouthed off with your racist ideas much too much to get away with anything like that.

And as to "Enrish," yes, it was pretty funny (and in no way a racial slur), but you misspelled it. For someone with a BA in Humanities, I would have though you could, at the very least, spell better than that. You missed the "g."

Did it ever occur to you (since you seem to set great store by where people are from, especially if they—like you, I might add—came from somewhere other than England) that "Engrish" might refer to child born of one parent from England and the other from Ireland?

Keep your mind flexible, David—    Oh! Sorry! Obviously atrophy has already set it.

On another bon mot of yours (that's French, by the way), so you would prefer to deny the opportunity of attendees to Albert Hall the pleasure of hearing a steel band—the music of another culture—and offer them a Northumbrian pipe band instead (worthy in and of itself, of course), because it hews closer to your ideas of what does or does not constitute "good English culture." That smacks of cultural censorship, and that's the kind of thing that tyrants like to pull.   You more than amply demonstrate that your turn of mind is such that were you (God forbid!) ever to gain any kind of political power and begin to implement you ideas, that there is good reason for the comment, "When I hear the world 'culture,' I reach for my pistol."

I am also in awe of the way you blew off Eliza Carthy on the other thread, lecturing her on what is and isn't "E-trad."

David, you are a real piece of work!

Don Firth