In many ways, it is Phillipson and Graddol who now represent the two sides of current debate: the one alarmist and agitatorial, the other careful, concerned, but cautiously optimistic about the benefits of globalisation.

From the later Middle Ages onwards a figure-caster discovered plying his trade among the people could expect to be brought before a church court for correction.

I can't ask him out, she's taken.

O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!