No — I was the thread originator, and words and idioms were what I was talking about [as e.g. American military 'off limits; driving out traditional English 'out of bounds']. Other people drifted my thread into variant pronunications, changing names of places in different languages {which caused Alice to give vent to a most peculiar outburst and I hope she has got her temper back now}, and so on. All very interesting, no doubt; but only marginally or tangentially related to my original point.