Wolfgang, you are a scholar of no mean accomplishment. Off the thread, species is species singular and species plural. Yes, KimC, specie is what we cannot do without, bread, folding green, a bit of the ready, etc, necessary to buy Kim Chee in a Korean restaurant. Also not near the mark, is there a name for this kind of statement: "Thar I was, out in the big middle (of Brazos County or whatever).