Don---I am an utter babe in the woods when it comes to halogen bulbs. I have never really had anything to do with them---that will be another "figure it out as I go" thing. In terms of the English language---Go to Newfoundland sometime, and try to follow a conversation!!! Very interestingly, growing up where and when I did, there was very little communication and flow of people back and forth between small isolated communities in Ontario (mid-northern). In the 1950's when I was a teenager, they were just beginning to improve the road systems to travel more easily between these small communities, which made centralized schooling and schoolbuses possible. However---these small communities had been settled for close to 100 years, and each of them had developed a very distinct dialect. I could hear a person speak one sentence, and be able to tell if he had grown up in Hardwood Lake, Little Ireland, Coe-Hill, or Bronson---or a dozen other small communities that were all within 30 miles of each other. Now with centralized schooling and television and radio, all the people up there now speak with the same dialect, with no specific distinctions, regardless of where they grew up.