>>>>>Just a lingo point for you, Hugo: Your mother prohibited you
from...
>>>>>
>>>>>Always glad to help non-native speakers. :-)
>>>>
>>>>Always tankful of people helping me :)
>>>
>>>I was going to let Terry respond, but what the heck. You mean "thankful
for...".
>>>
>>>And you thought English wasn't civilised. ;)
>>
>>I thought Hugo had a tankful of people giving him English advice. I'm afraid that was what I noticed and to correct that (possible typo) would have seemed like I was picking on him :-)
>
>Yeah. I didn't bother with the typo, just that the 'of' should be 'for'. 'To' also works, but in the context, I figured he meant 'for'.
Yes, for H's benefit:
thankful to people for helping me
thankful for people helping me
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.