[altura]

thanx, I almost embarrassed myself in front of my husband ... I wanted to use it re the Sammy Sosa thing, I would never have put the dah on the end.

[Right Wing Professor]

I would never have put the dah on the end.

Anderson Cooper didn't know any better last night on CNN either. Didn't stop him!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Freude is German for joy; shadenfreude is joy in another's troubles. German pronunciation rules are hard and fast, phonics works perfectly for them. And German phonics rules demand that a trailing "e" is NOT silent but is pronounced "ah".