Expressions such as “North of Watford Gap” testify to the perceptions of southerners in this “austrocentric” nation (Wales 2002: 46).

The vacuum furnace has been greatly improved and today we are melting titanium, zirconium, high alloy steels and other materials which are remarkably free of impurities and possess improved properties. These high performance metals are used in turbojet engines, missiles and atomic reactors. […] We call it unobtainium.

In the compound noun chicken soup, the noun adjunct chicken modifies the noun soup.

Old Saxon influence is variously lexical, formulaic, and metrical, and it affects, in different ways, most of the identifiably Alfredian poems (excepting only the Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care, really).