> Whilst I am confident that a French gnome who reads both Proust and the
> incomparible Gibbon would do an excellent job, I am not sure that it
> would be a good use of his time to translate US/English into English. We
> can just about understand the dialects spoken in the new world.

Yes, and when we annotate them over here, and make a mistake, we can always use
a rubber to erase them. Or is that an eraser to rub them out ?

Altogether now : You say tomato and we say tomato ...

Phil.