Regarding online translation, if you want to know whether you're using a decent application, translate your original into the other language, and then translate the result back into your original language. Sometimes the results are hilarious. Rodger, was 'he is peeling us' in Georgian or in Bzyp, the famous Caucasian language once claimed to have no vowels? (It has one, schwa.) I assume the "r" at least is vocalic, as it is in some Slavic languages. Jane McGary