>Does it? I spent this past hour rereading all interesting stuff from thread #1210085, in search of the original post where I misused 'to require'. That thread also contains the posts (starting with message #1210672) where people like Terry explained the correct meaning. The subthreat starting with message #1210672 also contains posts about the misuse of 'demand'. You are a major player there. :)

I knew there was a threat somewhere in this :).

To comfort you, I can only boast my own inventions: crap iron (instead of scrap), and flee market (instead of flea). Both expressions held some higher truth in them - the scrap iron being, ironically, mostly totally rusty crap, and the flea market fleeing in all directions when the police comes.