[Quix]

—Behavioral expenditures
—Energy expenditures
—Time expenditures
—Word/text expenditures

all declare otherwise . . . persistently . . . and in many locales and contexts.

—waddles like a duck
—floats like a duck
—quacks like a duck . . .

[maryz]

G'night . . . you can ping me when you have something substantive to say -- and not in that modernist, free-form vers libre (or whatever it is) you seem to favor!