If Quebeckers believe that voting PQ means putting a knife to Canada’s throat, they should think again. The ROC is fed up with these threats.

They gasped at the sight of the beheaded king.

Partnering, along with its less irritating cousin partnership, crops up all over the place, being equally useful to the lazy jargoneer and the lazy policy-maker. It has been said that there is no noun which cannot be verbed; in the same way, there is now nothing, concrete or abstract, which cannot be partnered.

You're a suspicious-looking cove, and you'll comerlongerme! I'm a plain clothes man, I am.