I see much good sense in the recent postings.

I'd like to pick up on Jim's point about "four-square singing".

I confess that I can't entirely follow his description, but I do have a similar dislike for singers who break up a word or a line inappropriately. A common fault is to take a breath at the end of a musical line instead of at the end of the verbal phrase that comes one or two words later. (I would quote a specific instance but I can't recall it right now.)

I have heard recordings of source singers where they stop for breath in an obviously wrong place, even the middle of a word. But I'm prepared to believe that that happened because they were heading for what would have been the right place to breathe but just couldn't get that far when they were old and short of breath.

Richard