Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- the fear of long words. Or, more likely, rupophobia - a fear of rubbish.

Sweating is a generally a quiet operation; if the food is whispering, or worse, hissing, the moisture is probably evaporating too rapidly

Those who are familiar with the laws of interference, of the polarization of light, &c, know, that, according to the wave theory, the luminar vibrations are not longitudinal, like the vibrations of sound […]

The third type are human transgenic embryos, made by injecting a segment of animal DNA into a human egg.