Forum Activity for @harold-powell

A great movie.

Well, I have a DVR but I wouldn't use it to watch "Dancing with the Stars."

Basically, aside from our local news, we really watch only two American television programs: "Castle" and the new CBS program "Elementary" (Sherlock Holmes in New York City). The latter I thought I would hate--but it's actually quite good.

We mostly watch Netflix and Acorn TV streamed to our HDTV. We pick and choose without those annoying commercials.

I don't use it but I think it's like a verbal exclamation point. Enough, already! How that evolved is beyond me.

Sorry. I did not. I wouldn't see any of that show except that they usually go long a minute or two. I only see the very end while I'm waiting for Castle to come on.

I am a pop culture moron. I've heard the word "innit" but had/have no idea what it means. We have a television program called "Dancing with the Stars" which purportedly is a dancing contest featuring "Stars" paired with dancing instructors. They dance together in a competition. The thing is, I usually see the last 2 or 3 minutes of the program because I always tune in to watch the program "Castle" which follows. The thing is: I can never discern who is the "Star" and who is the instructor. I rarely know any of them.

"Aluminum" [ah-LOOM-ih-num] in the still the correct spelling in American English when speaking of a product made primarily from the element "Aluminium." Aluminum, as a product, is usually an alloy containing Aluminium [Ai] and various other elements including copper and magnesium for example.

However, when speaking of the element Aluminium [Al] on the Periodic Chart--the most common pronunciation in American English is owl-you-MIN-i-um followed by ow-loo-MIN-i-um.

Good insight. Balance indeed.

The Chicago Tafia is a group made up of younger Welsh people. I like their approach.

My daughter has always identified herself among friends, classmates and associates as Welsh. The tradition continues in my granddaughter. My sister, on the other hand, who was reared in the same home as I takes little interest in her Welsh heritage. Go figure...

Tod, It is pronounced RYE-o Grand by the way.

Its Welsh founders chose that name only after having several previous applications rejected by the State of Ohio saying their submission was already "taken." Exasperated, someone said they had seen a newspaper headline with the "Rio Grande" in it and said, "Surely that name isn't taken?" It wasn't. But no one knew how to pronounce it.

"RYE-o Grand" is also the home of the Bob Evans restaurant chain and the Evans farm which started it all.