Nice one Dan, that makes much more sense now.

yes it is confusing and annoying when G! throws up that message, especially when i'm searching for something and WANT that word to be included, whether it considered a stop word or not, it is sometimes gramatically correct to use it for the search I am doing.

at least now I know what that message is saying and can change the way I search accordingly, or at least understand why I get some of the results that are returned.