I found ElizaD’s thread topic very interesting, as are all of hers, and just regret I couldn’t add to it. I’d say this is a well-mannered room as long as you lay off religion and politics which I found to my cost. Questions of language provoke fire rather than light as someone once said but not that much here, I’d say.
If lionello’s ‘command of English is far from perfect’ (as he disingenuously claims) we might as well all throw in the towel!
I remember an English lecturer in a tutorial asking us if we “still” read dictionaries and then pulling Skeat’s and one by the bloke whose wife ran off with DH Lawrence’s (looking this up) off his shelves. It was great to discover dictionaries later as well as this forum which caters to enthusiasts and experts.
(Ernest Weekley was the fellow DH cuckolded and he wrote dictionaries of etymology and names. What was Frieda thinking?)
