At 09:55 pm 25/01/2006 -0800, Jones wrote: > > ...methinks to appease his supporters, he has now put > himself in the proverbial Zugswang, however.
Zugzwang. That's a useful word. I'll have to put it in my German box along with Schadenfreude and Gestalt. Oh! and by the way Jones, it has 2 zeds - or zees as you yanks call them - which always irritates me when I'm reading a Dr Seuss book to my grandchildren and I get to the line which doesn't rhyme with zed. fg
