nonpayment (“lack of payment, failure to pay”)

[…] the Britons, by rendering the war thus bloody, seemed determined to cut off all hopes of peace or composition with the enemy.

If I could nominate a “dialect of the 21st Century,” I would probably go with Singapore English, a native English dialect spectrum spoken in a region with few competitors (for nearly 1/3 of Singaporeans, English is the primary language spoken at home).

Do you stay at the front of the second class, or step up and show what you can do on a superbike?