The aging “proper New Yorkian” who from the depts of “his” chair in “his” club responded to the story of the unremitting, unsuccessful, and often ludicrous campaign of a flamboyant man of great wealth to crash a top club with “I shouldn’t think any gentlemen’s club would let that bounder inside its doors” is a member of a dying breed.

Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.

Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.

Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.