Merry...American dictionaries are just new, revised, and corrected versions of those dusty old things sitting around your houses of "higher" education. Need I point out that if we Yanks hadn't saved your British butts, arse, bum, or whatever you people call them...during the big WW Two, you'd probably be searching through your German to English Translation Book right now. I haven't had this much fun since my last root canal.