There's Nobby, now―here he indicates Zenobia with his pipe―as has 'ad a whole cartload o' troubles, besides me a riding on the shafts, an' that's bad enough, an't it, Nobby?

‘There is no higher feature this side of the river than your house. You could be the first to notice the Firangi army when it nears Kalinadi.’

In Maine, where as much as a quarter of the population has French ancestry, you may hear a stray hair called a couette, and in parts of Ohio please is used in the same way as the German bitte, to invite a person to repeat something just said — apparently a remnant of the bilingual schooling once available in Cincinnati.

This position is a real tabiya. It frequently arises from the Queen's Gambit Declined rather than the Caro-Kann […]