itself that causes the confusion. as i wrote this i discovered my alternate use of 'burned' and burnt'. turning to my antique version of spell check, aka, "the new world dictionary" that lives on the shelf above my desk, i found burn is evidently a very confusing word. while most definitions require one half to a full inch to deal with it's definition,the word burn used up nearly five inches of space. clearly, this must be the answer. one problem. i looked up the word "clear". seven inches are devoted to what it means. i am confused. by the way, the definition of that word takes only three quarters of 