> From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@xxxxxxxxxxx> > I think colloquialisms may often be as hard to understand as excellent > but seldom-used vocabulary. Indeed - and now that we have this really cool Internet thingy (it's odd to think that young people have no memory of what the world was like before a large fraction of its information was instantly at one's fingertips - and in 80 years or so, _nobody_ will remember that age personally), one can very easily look up either a recondite word, or an obscure colloquialism, in moments... Noel