I think your last sentence explains with superb, bloomimg, rosy, brilliant, shining, beaming, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, gorgeous, magnificent, sublime, and grand clarity, lucidity, perspicacity not withholding intelligibilty the exact reason why I do not appreciate the "Americanisation" of my superb language. English has begged, stolen and borrowed from almost eevry language on the globe to produce the most eloquent form of communication. To have it reduced to expression such as "doncha" would make the literary giants rotate at great speed one fathom below. I like this thread, nothing like a good argument to stimulate the grey cells ............time to put the thinking cap on! May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead