As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again - not before time.

The medieval question mark had an additional function that has since been lost: a mirror-reversed question mark (called punctus percontativus) signified a rhetorical question that did not expect a direct answer.

Despite restrictions I did manage to talk a couple of colleagues into doing a sponsored walk …. Due to COVID-19 we had to organise this ourselves, but it went off splendidly and the three of us walked 12 miles along the Basing Canal on the River Wey and Thames. ….