But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are no portmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.

You know the typical Charlottean doesn't exist very much. So when you actually hear it, when somebody says this is a typical Charlottean accent, you go, […]

It's not always convenient for me to pick up the tone arm at the end of the record and the stylus continues to ride the leadout groove for a time.

The common English divisions of time, longitude, and latitude are all computed using sexagesimal arithmetic.