I rang singer Julie Driscoll ... She said: I haven't heard from you for yonks...

The race to the finish line has started already according to Jürgen Klopp and by those punishing standards Liverpool have faltered badly.

Although this story predated the Kunkle episode, something told me that with dime-droppers afoot, both men and women naturally become more cautious. After all, informality could be misinterpreted, and as the Navy puts it, discovery in these cases is a career ender.

This example also shows the combination of a hypocorrect construction with a “high” stylistic figure, that is, paronomasia (or figura etymologica—mafʿūl muțlaq).