As references to foreign hydronymies have shown, this semantic structure and development is not confined to Scotland or to the British Isles.

In the pilot episode, the ever-vigilant mother sternly demands that Lane tell her if any of the girls in Stars Hollow High have gotten pregnant, and then orders her to drink tea with no dairy or sugar added. In lieu of sugary cookies or carb-filled brownies, a meager portion of healthy muffins is made available to Lane by her mother, who has used wheat so fiber rich that the hardened clumps of baked goods (or, rather “bads”) need to be dampened first to make them chewably soft.

She French braided her hair pulling it straight back from her face.

Sara sent twice for the measure of George's Neck—he wondered, Sara should be such a fool, she might have measured William's or Coleridge's, as all poets' Thropples were of one Size.