A member of Mr Monti’s government admitted that, barring a hung parliament, it was impossible for the moment to see how Mr Monti could be shoehorned into politics after next spring.

Finally, I would like to discuss the striking resemblance between the Turkish -mis forms in baby talk, and the Bulgarian perfectoid in adult-to-child communication.

Coordinate term: missile gap

Such is the potential that the concept of oyster-tecture – the use of oysters as an architectural resource – was developed by landscape architect Kate Orff and presented in a 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.