It appears that a compositor had been engaged for the Northern Territory Times, and for a considerable time the editor seems to have led a comparatively unruffled existence; till in an evil hour the compositor was smitten with gold fever, and struck work.

If native-speaker varieties have been given such scholarly attention, surely non-native-speaker varieties should not be excluded from similar treatment.

M is a closed λ-term (or combinator) if FV(M) = ∅. The set of closed λ-terms is denoted by Λ⁰.

The controlled way in which Germans and other northern Europeans approach life is quite different from the casualness that characterizes American attitudes.