Wordwizard

Can you recommend any good pictures of the place?

Well, Edwin, you may be thinking of everybody's fair-weather friend, Gerry Mandering.

But I may be meandering off the point -- failing to keep all my ducks in a row, in other words.

Only in parts of northern England, as far as I know.

Every time Bush speaks at one of his rarely-held accountability-evading press conferences, it's as though I'm hearing one of those jumbled texts. Maybe there is something to be said for the infrequency of those occasions after all.

Besides the circumflex, numerous other accents (a.k.a. diacritic marks) are used in other Roman-based alphabets. A brief inspection of the range of characters that Wikipedia allows for in its postings will demonstrate their extent, as will MS Windows' Character Map. Essentially, the purpose of these...

The panties were probably too hard for people to get into.

Incidentally, Andrew, thanks for keeping an eye (or in your case, ear) out regarding this problem. It shows that there's at least one other person besides myself and the Quakers who is taking it seriously.

The acute accent is in fact known in French as "l'accent aigu".

Quite true, Edwin. The numerous Renaissance paintings that show St Michael slaying the dragon usually depict him sitting astride a rather handsome steed.

Spiritus,

You surely exaggerate the extent of my wit, which is no greater than the intersect of those two black lines -- period.

Please, in all your humble magnanimity, reconsider your verdict.

Wordwizard, eh?

Now where have I heard that name before...?

Shelley, that's not what I think of as pop music.

The explanation for the name of the TV series that I found in an Amazon.com review is that "His character, Fitz, has a incredible way to crack people and get the information that he needs on the crimes that they committed." Either that, or he habitually wore his trousers rather loose around the hips...

Yes, or it could just mean he was getting hot under the collar.

I nominate Piet Mondrian's Lozenge Composition with Two Black Lines.

Now you're just verbogerminating.