The government floated the pound in January.

the refitment of a ship

He watched with pleasure the food sellers swirling the frying mee round in their kualis over primitive charcoal fires.

We joked about reversal of expectations : 'Get a butch home and she turns over on her back.' But from all other reports, seriousness and the placing of implicit delimitations underlay the jokes. Lorde spoke of the stigma of being ki-ki (someone who changed her erotic role of butch or fem depending on her partner) in the Greenwich Village, New York, 1950s bar scene.