Sublime

German, Dutch, Swedish, and the gang are, by and large, variations on what happened to Proto-Germanic as it morphed along over three thousand years. They are ordinary rolls of the dice. English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

the American judge Hiller B. Zobel famously described it as ‘asking the ignorant to use the incomprehensible to decide the unknowable’.

Numerous words and expressions used in mainstream English started life in magic. Some of them, like phoney, are unexpected. The fraudulent practice of the fawney-rig was first recorded in the USA at the end of the eighteenth century. In 1823 Pierce Egan, a chronicler of popular pursuits and low life in England, described how the trick worked. ‘A

Bernice Davis, sister of Fatty Davis.

the three lies (they aren’t meals, they aren’t ready, and they definitely aren’t edible).

it was only Melissa who ate the granola and he was thinking very hard about which granola to buy, the orange and cranberry or the coconut and tropical fruit.