The idea of putting pants on waitresses—or half pants, to be mathematically correct—originated with the manager, as a result of the installation of a mural painting showing a number of red-coated, bebreeched ladies participating in a fox hunt.

The interpreter, O'Haniel Bailey, a Whilkut, supplied many phrases and sentences.

In his opinion it would seem that certain usages of colloquial English in Australia and New Zealand in the early 1800s could have been selected as conventional usages in the developing contact jargon. Many of these usages are still part of colloquial speech today in both of these countries, for example: fella for 'one', […] no good, orright, calaboose, […]

The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting thousands of complaints from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.