By placing them closer to the source, we can reduce the number of messages in the system and this in turn is likely to improve the fidelity of the system.

Then there was the emerald ash borer, an insect that–as a recent editorial in the Washington Post put it–could do to Eastern ash trees what an Asian blight did to chestnuts in the first half of the last century–wipe them out.

He hath all to be pist my shooes He hath bemarred my paper …

Ouch. How could you say that?