The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.

At some point in the long evolutionary voyage from reptilehood, it developed a double voice-box, the syrinx...

Pink- and apricot-coloured irises have also been bred in some species.

I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.