Johanna's reminder to me that my course may attract students with a variety of motivations and abilities takes me back to when I taught high school Latin. The courses tended to attract the kinds of students whom I've described, but there were also those who seemed to have a great deal of difficulty catching on to what the study of language was all about. They were often very frustrated, tended to view what we were doing as abstract at the same time that I felt it was concrete. Ideally I will have a class large enough to be permittied to exist, but small enough (8-12 students) to allow everyone to jump right in with the trials and tribulations as well as the triumphs. Was it this group that was sharing some interesting nouns-used-as verbs a few months ago? The exchange made me more conscious of the prevalence of this and I had to smile recently when a colleague announced that she would not be at a meeting because she would be maid of honoring at her sister's wedding. Emily