In Elvish, nasal infixion is a frequent means of forming derivatives from roots.

A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

Just the tiniest speck of spellfire pushed into his palm.

It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: What we need is more old white men on the stage.