The uncarines possess mild pharmacologic activity and may cause depression and death in mice at a dose of 250-500 mg kg⁻¹ p.o.

Lovelock, for example, suggests the term “jaycustomers" to label customers who “misconsume” in a manner similar to jaywalkers who cross streets in unauthorized places.

It seems reasonable to interpret this misscribing of common words as a fallout from improvement in other techniques, among them a greater concentration on content, a more automatic scribing of all words, a more rapid rate of production...

I cannot but […] admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse.