Only two words in English possess a bare minimum resemblance to that of pictographics: eye (two es are the eyes, and they is the nose) and bed (two vertical strokes from b and d compose the frame of the bed).

Specifically, he [Ivan Illich] seemed to be saying that biomedicine is a zero-sum game of sorts, a matter of “biological accountants” or worse, “biofascists”—doctors, drug manufacturers, and hospital managers—inflicting their wills on masses of powerless and innocent victims: us.

Worsteds are more suitable for men's and women's stockings . Wools for children's stockings , or for muffetees , ruffs , and other lighter articles of wear , which should be soft and warm

In most cases English words appear in novels either as alienisms, in domesticated forms or as loan-words. Interpolated alienisms usually point to imported objects, for example drinks such as Cocacola, brandy (Kizazi), …