The center of percussion also finds more exotic applications, like in tennis dynamics: the so-called sweet spot […] is a special impact point on the racket strings used to prevent jarring of the hand. It is defined either as a vibration node, or as the center of percussion, or as the point where the restitution coefficient […] is maximum and vibrations minimum[…].

'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.

Oh, pillaloo! why should ye go, my boy, and lave all the good atin and drinkin?