Re: apologies

[Sorry to prolong a non-categorical thread - I hope I'm not saying anything contentious enough to warrant a reply.] I can state without recourse to dictionaries that in living English English, to tick off is to reprimand, e.g. "Teacher gave me a real ticking off." Paul's usage ("One person has ticked me off for ...") was completely idiomatic. I only found out this year that American English is different - the phrase is used in the "annoy" sense on "Dinosaurs". Steve Vickers ==============================================================================