[DanaC]

Affectation is usually unnecessary, come to that. Half-brights, I say, and I say it with confidence, DanaC.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in that?

@ UG. It isn't affectation if it's the way you've been taught to say the word by everybody around you. It would be an affectation were I, or Sundae, to start pronouncing it offen. In much the same way that it would be an affectation for you to start pronouncing it often. You've just accused most of the British nation of being half-brights because they pronounce a word differently to the way you (an American) pronounce the word. What an utterly ludicrous position to take. Even for a man of your arrogance that is wholly preposterous.

I expect I shall continue to twit you from time to time over your fits of notwithitness --

I expect you shall. And I expect I shall continue to twat you from time to time over your fits of pomposity.