Firstly, it is a fact of academic observation, as I mentioned earlier, that the descriptions which linguists provide for utterances are disputable, and disputed, what one might call undecidably so.

A pretty way to conciliate 'little tempers' indeed, to add to the offence of spoiling the fish the crime of bringing an unexpected friend to eat it. Pot luck, quotha, when the pot's boiled over this half hour!

While most of us were still thinking music only came on discs, IUMA was already living out the future, bringing paperless, plasticless, pure music to devices that now look like computers but may soon be as ubiquitous as cell phones […]

If we look to the nether reaches of the list, we find some anomalies.