I really, really think you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill here. I've not once run into anyone who has made me feel embarrassed, or even pointed out the fact, that "vinyls" is incorrect. The only time that's happened was on this board, and sadly it DID turn into a flame thread... I think fixating on such a mundane, trivial thing such as the pluralization of "vinyl" is an elitist, snobbish thing, and the one who should be embarrassed is the person putting SO MUCH weight on such a small thing...It's ridiculous (in my humble opinion) that that's the kind of thing that people fight over, but then again, humans fight over a LOT of stupid sh*t so who am I to argue against this... But at least your post had some relevance to the main topic, I'm sure a lot of people don't even both replying to the question and just jump on the shun-the-'vinyls'-blasphemer wagon, and in my humble opinion, that's just sad...