Thank you etaoin, and thanks for the welcome.
Having been "out of school" the equivalent of many people's entire life, there are numerous changes to which am (reluctantly) becoming accustomed.
Just the other day I was conversing with my (college student) son's girlfriend, who is a literature student, about English sentence structure. While I was going through school, I recall a 'shift' in the labels for the varioius parts of a sentence.
I was originally taught about the:
Subject
Verb
Predicate
Later, it became the:
Subject
Verb
Object

But the evolutionary nature of our language is among the things that keep me fascinated.


Then, of course, I was also led to believe the Brontosaurus existed!

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English is a crazy language

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton