In the four-volume supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (hereafter, OED), its editor, Burchfield, supplied a separate subdefinition stating that Hobson-Jobson was ‘[u]sed as the title of a famous collection of Anglo-Indian words’ … Thus, along with the Bible and the Koran, Hobson-Jobson, the book, has been elevated to the special status of being defined in the OED.

I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.

Much more sweeping were the reforms proposed by Sir Thomas Smith (1568), who understandably but wrong-mindedly wanted letter forms to be “pictures” of speech sounds, that is, to have an iconic relationship to the sounds.

The classical ring of quotients of a commutative Bezout ring is a (von Neumann) regular local ring if and only if R is a commutative semihereditary local ring.