Should any of our listers be in London UK in the near future then a visit to the British Library may help with "Words" ... They have put on a "Dictionary Exhibition" of "Evolving English: One Language Many Voices" The Librarian says -We hope the exhibition celebrates diversity across the world. We have constantly absorbed languages which come into contact with us- An end note says that the Oxford Dictionary of English has a new entry "vuvuzela", but maybe you don't watch football....{;}}> Peter PS. Microsoft spell checker does not recognise "vuvuzela".........