If either of you both love Katharina […] / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

What this means is that academic interest in Indian English lexis has been largely confined to Indianisms.

Otherwise, small business owners like those in the construction industry will have to be prescient, as well as politically and financially astute, in deciding if today is a good day to die.