The reporters were having a field day with our saga and the courtroom filled with spectators.

The rotaxanes can be surface assembled on to gold electrodes through anion templation under click copper(I)-catalysed Huisgen cycloaddition conditions to form rotaxane molecular films, which, after template removal, respond electrochemically and selectively to chloride.

It was decided that she should go for a week or two to Rose Lodge to regain her strength, and submit to the welcome cossetings of her mother and grandmother.

The verb first appeared in print in 1988, enclosed in quotation marks, as in the Chicago Tribune of November 20, 1988: “Honest disagreement is one thing; ‘borking’ is something else.” In February 1989, Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming commented on CBS This Morning: “I feel strongly that he [Senator John Tower] is being borked. … The charges that have been leveled at him have all proved groundless, baseless.”