Welcome to the board, RLS! As a writer and humorist I'm sure you have much delightful and insightful linguistic conversation to add to this board, and I look forward to your continued postings.

However, many of us are writers and humorists here with work to promote, and Anu, our esteemed webmaster, who runs this discussion board, and A.W.A.D., and the wordsmith.org site, as a non-profit labor of love, requests that any promotional solicitations be directed to a sponsorship of a Daily Word or AWADMail at a very modest cost. And all of us here honor his wishes, and respect this site enough, to make it a point to keep commercial self-promotion off this board. I'm sure you can see the benefit of this to all concerned. Here's the the link from Anu's A.Word.A.Day, which I'm sure you must be familiar with, where you can find an audience of a half million people for your promotional purposes at a very nominal fee...cheers!:

from A.Word.A.Day

>You? Reach more than half-million readers -- contact us at
http://sponsor@wordsmith.org.