Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.

The river, which is some 3,028 miles long and has a catchment basin of 250,000 sq. miles, rises in the Bayan Kara Shan (15,000 ft) of north-east Tibet and flows as a mountain torrent above Lanchow. Between Lanchow and Wuchung in Ningsia it descends on to the Inner Mongolian plateau and is less torrential although still of considerable strength. At Wuchung it starts on its northward course, known as the Great Bend, across the Ordos Desert.

Robert Loo sat, quite content, behind the counter, against a cyclorama of tins of milk and corned beef.

You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.