The Elgin Marbles were originally part of the temple of the Parthenon.

The list agrees not with parallel lists in the Old Testament, and it is inconceivable under what category any concrescive genealogy, official or family, would contain of women only the five named, or would omit names enough, and at the right places, to throw the list from Abraham to Christ into three tables of double-sevens […]

The surly weather put us all in a bad mood.

Following Jakobson 1959 [1972] and Lehmann 1982 [1995], grammaticalization for most observers always entails obligatorification. As Jakobson memorably put it, languages differ not in what they can say, but in what they must: …