What do you mean by asking what's the problem, MudGuard? There is no problem. There doesn't always have to be a problem, you know. Here people are just sharing jokes and memories. ----------------------- I have been ruminating on the spelling of cemetery. It occurs to me that it is spelled wrong in the dictionary. After all, dictionary makers are not infallible.

If you want to keep the last e, then it ought to have two r's. Like this: cemeterry. This would be analogous to derry, ferry, Kerry, Terry, etc.

Anyway, the cemetery spelling obviously isn't right. Consider the following list: forgery, Margery, debauchery, cemetery. Clearly "cemetery" doesn't fit.

No doubt someone will post a post saying that cemetery is derived from the Medieval Latin "cemetererere," meaning to put someone under the cement, but I'm not buying that. The Medieval Latins are long dead, and their spelling was never reliable, anyway. ---------------- Thanks, everybody, for protecting me, who started this thread, from people like Ewan who wanted to turn it into a flaming situation.