Doug Westfall wrote: " PLEASE members, let us stick to the subject of the PBS. As a former English teacher. I can remember "mistrakes" that I have made as well as others. Even after becoming an administrator, I had to deal with these. Our newspapers are the worst violators of spelling "rules". Unless the mistake leads to a "misunderstanding" of the topic, Let's not make such an issue of it. This only leads to irritation and unneeded "words"!" I would be willing to bet that Doug's comments mean different things to different people. With that in mind, I would suggest that when making suggestions of this sort it would be a big help if the writer were very specific about what is meant. And the easiest way to do that is to quote the offending passage. If you are reluctant to point the finger at another list participant's work on line, reply to them privately. Doug, I'm confused. Was it the recent threads involving the permutations of spelling on the names Masson and Mason which you found irritating? It seems to me that such discussions are pertinent to this list. I have not noticed that we have any self-appointed spelling police on the list: a lot goes by without comment, if not without notice. When some of us go off on orthography tangents there is almost always a direct link to bulbs. Isn't that how it should be? Jim McKenney