When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise.

It is the first time a train operator has been renationalised over a breach of trust.

Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road. […] What is that, Mary? Jake asked. 'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure. Pure? What is pure? Pure is another word for dung, Mary answered.

As the cruise ship Explorer was picking its way through the Antarctic sea ice, it hit what experts believe was a growler - a huge iceberg shorn from the Antarctic ice shelf.