What I meant was that the people who post to H-Net in the "intellectual history" strand of that list-serve are very much like us, AWADers, in that we are both interested in words. I must have expressed this notion very poorly to have so few understand and so many misunderstand. Alas. The article for which I provided a URL was all about this H-Net chat, and gave examples which were hauntingly like out own patter. Hmmm. Don't recall endorsing the NY Times any more than one who comments on the quality of the gravy is endorsing the boat in which it is served.