Sigh, knew the Semantic Nitpicker’s Chapter of the Straight Dope Message Board would be along very shortly to bestow their august wisdom on us all. Tell you what, next time I decide to make a poll I’ll sit on it for several decades first, going over and over and over in my head every possible permutation of how I could phrase the question in such a way that it could not possibly ever be misinterpreted. Will that make you happy? 