and (Snodders) Too kind. :-) Poor Marc! His only failure is scansion whereas I suspect matey-boy, far from having had a score, has yet to score at all, and is a past master at the lonely art.
festering [Rosie & Snodgrass] Many thanks for your kind concern regarding my love life, I can assure you it is quite all right! Regarding scansion: Many a time it is far better to play on just by pacing a previous line trying to create an 'almost' limerick instead of chopping its tail off without any mercy, according to my humble opinion ;-)
sometimes more or less obligatory. I seem to have startted something back there. It is only too true that modern 'youf' do not have quite the grip of grammar that we older types do. Just try asking one what "precis" is or, perhaps, ask them about clause analysis.