An acronym that never seems to have had capital letters comes from young urban professional, plus the -ie suffix, as in hypocorism, to produce the word yuppie (first recorded in 1984).

George Martin had died as though in his sleep, so quietly that no one had even guessed. And what Peter had imagined to be his snores had really been the lonesome death rattle.

If I go near a skateboard, I'm sure I'm just going to goof up and fall off.

The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank.