Beg your pardon, Sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.

The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative.

pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.