About thirty of these [markings on Pompeiian amphorae] appear to be either the so-called christograms […] or other monograms disturbingly reminiscent of the various christograms

Over the past two hundred years the English language has risen, seemingly irresistably, to its present position of world-bestriding supremacy.

At the Britannia Royal Naval College, the Lord High Admiral's Divisions is a parade held in the presence of the monarch or her representative.

a warnable offence