Oh!! I am so sorry I did not define the difference between the words "live" and "live" DrRog. Unfortunately pronunciation is not a luxury one is afforded in text.

I have heard it from quite a few that the English language is the hardest one to learn.

I am not surprised. We were taught in primary school "i before e except after c". Well how many exceptions to that rule are there?????

If you would like to learn more about the English language, how precise yet convoluted it can be, and have a hilariously rollicking good time doing it, read books written by Tom Sharpe.

Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure got him thrown out of South Africa in the early 70s when apartheid was still in vogue. Upon arrival in England he proceeded to expose the contradictions of all levels of society there and even succeeded in having a couple of his stories made into a TV mini series.

Other titles of his I have read are Porter House Blues, The Throwback, Vintage Stuff, Wilt, Wilt on High and of course Blott on the Landscape.

Last I heard of Tom Sharpe he was a lecturer on English language at either ( no i before e in that word ) Eton, Cambridge or Oxford University.