To be honest I am quite turned off by the way communications over the internet are conducted a lot of the time. Heated argument is fine, as I said before, but address the argument and don't resort to personal nastiness and dismissing different views as held by 'nazis' 'purists' 'snobs' etc. In the end (to use your phrase) going about it that way is more telling about the person who throws around these terms than of the people the abuse is aimed at.

Peter, I agree completely, and this is where quite a few people who post here fall short.

If the issues surrounding the definition of "folk" doen't matter to someone, they shouldn't respond in those threads.

Well, I don't get involved much in those disputes, but from time to time I have a "good lord, give it a rest already" reaction. Honestly, I can only shake my head in disbelief at how worked up some of the UK contingent become over these issues. And sometimes I comment, which is surely my prerogative.