The quality of the liquor served in the spirit grocers was poor and often adulterated, said [John] Edgar. He gave an example of a whiskey known as 'kill the beggar' in Belfast because 'it first makes the beggar and then kills the beggar'. There was an even worse concoction called 'corduroy', so named because it gave a rough feeling on the tongue and palate.

The morning news today played a clip of last night's debate.

I felt uncomfortably conspicuous, since I was the only man in evening dress.

When you write about using a waterproof laser pointer while scuba diving, you probably aren't going to write about a L.A.S.E.R. pointer for S.C.U.B.A. diving, and you certainly aren't going to write about a light-amplification-by-stimulated-emission-of-radiation pointer for self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus diving, because the words laser and scuba are anacronyms.