Or you could be a total Fox-head and write:

oApp.Ending='"Thoma".'
IF PEMSTATUS("oEnglishTeach","Whack",5)
oApp.Ending='"Thoma."'
ENDIF

Cheers :-)

>I'm in a grammar quandry. Good grammar would have me write:
>
>...you could enter "Thoma." But the _word_ is "Thoma" so I think I should write "Thoma". But the ghost of my 6th grade english teacher (Miss Fisk) keeps whacking me on the head.
>
>I know: this is totally unimportant. < shrug >