You’re as superstitious as my father, who, if he had his way, would have my neck ajingle with his holy medals.

Because software patents can cover vast areas of territory, they are the weapon of choice for patent trolls: people or companies that hold patents but make no products, and bring patent-infringement lawsuits against companies that do make products, offering to settle for less than the cost of fighting the suit.

The local place-name 'Chapel Gate' — 'the road to the Chapel' — is of some antiquity (J. J. Kneen, Place-Names, I, p. 22) and applies particularly to the steep pathway down the brooghs to the keeill-site and well at the west end of 'Chapel Bay'.

The squire made no bones about the matter; he despised the captain.