>Besides, you didn't misunderstand a term in this case, but rather a deformation of a word :-)
That's right, but if I know the original word, I usually recognize the deformation as well.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)