@gezd:After a lot of staring and pondering, I would include the hyphen in paid-up.
@sjd: exactly my kind of article. Thanks
@Hoss: Don’t I wish! I have a grandcat (not very satisfactory) and several grand nephews and a grand niece (very satisfactory altho far away) Grammar greataunt? Not very mellifluous. However, G Gestapo has a nice ring.
@)brownlemur: not bad, but septuagenarian ultragrammarian is a double-double, or quadruple* dacty. You got my age spot-on. (Some of which I now note on back of hands, sadly).
*See infamous poetic biographical verse form:
double dactyl