Simple tricks such as an ‘ollie’—springing the board into mid-air—can be picked up in just a couple of weeks.

We won by a hair's breadth.

For example, once the child is able to parse (i.e. grammatically analyse) an adult utterance such as Help Daddy and knows that it contains a verb phrase comprising the head verb help and its complement Daddy, then (on the assumption that the language faculty specifies that all heads of a given type behave uniformly with regard to whether they are positioned before or after their complements), the child will automatically know that all verbs in English are canonically (i.e. normally) positioned before their complements.

Accidental overvoltage or overrange protection is provided by fast recovery diodes and zener clamps. This facilitates measuring repetitive pulse waveforms where a portion of the signal is overrange.