I noticed that you had to spend way more time defending use of the word "should" than Don did to dispute it!
Now that there is a single cause error!! You missed the variable most likely to have influenced length of post - I'm not very good at short, I suffer from verbal diaerreoh (sp?) demonstrated in all posts!! Hopefully that doesn't mean I'm terminally doomed to wrongness!
I'm simply as yet unconvinced! BTW - how rational is it to avoid a word so central to our collective way of life?
I understand what you mean though Eq. "Should" has its uses. But the exercise of examining frivolous use of the word is useful.
AGREED!! Isn't that the case with many of these word thingies?
BTW - the av is D's doodle of a bat redaing a newspaper, I'm proud to have the title of 'Batty Wiff' and have the address labels to prove it!!