Sanctioning etymological speculation, Coleridge urged that his readers be alert to the equivocal or double meaning of a word, and went so far as to contemplate writing an Apology for Paronomasy, alias Punning

a hypotensive agent such as an opioid

In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.

President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.