[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

I suppose I could live with "I suppose", but I'd never have guessed that "I guess" would be deemed to be such a vulgar phrase.

I'm afraid that it's quite beyond the pale in polite society, old thing. In some circles one could be thought simply barbaric for using so presidential an expression.

Don't listen to these transatlantic heathens, H-I: five minutes with them will guarantee that no civilised human being can understand a word you're saying.