belave, belick, bescatter, bekiss

In Precis of a Journey, he says: “The O and the Rare in the original slab are so spaced that it is hard to know whether they were meant as one word or two. Was Jack Young who had the inscription cut a punster? Or did the stonecutter misunderstand? Certainly, a play upon words would have been much in the sentiment of the seventeenth century. So I suggest that the well-beloved epitaph may have been intended as Orare Ben Johnson—pray for Ben Jonson (a use of the infinitive frequent in taphology.)[…]”

We berra gerrout! (We'd better get out!)

In fact, wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect.