All helmeted and pumped-up, dedicated pedallers raced through the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood in the second annual Toronto Criterium yesterday, one of four major cycling events in the province this weekend.

Used as a contact and alarm call, the muffled raab is like a muttered, husky quack.

A bachelor of our acquaintance describes his brother's children as his “nephlings.” This term is not only gender neutral, unlike niece or nephew, but implies a closer relationship with its connection to the word sibling.]

If we must guard against the notions of form, coherence or justifying too narrowly, in terms of what is generally praised as “harmony” and “balance,” we must equally avoid interpreting them so broadly that everything whatever is “formful” simply because it has parts in relation to one another.