Marianna! Delighted to see you back, Sweetie! Do we call you Dr. Marianna now? And--I'd had the idea that you were in England; was that wrong?
Anyway--welcome to you, sjm. I was gonna put that yesterday, but my computer started making this really weird sort of clanking thump, when I was trying to research those -ane words, and I shut it down immediately.
Rhuby, I was wondering how "statu quo" is pronounced, also. All I can imagine it as is "statue quo", and surely that can't be right? FWIW, I say stat-us quo. By the way, I heard a rumor that you eat cow pies and peripatet (hi, tsuwm) all over the place...