Thaw shay mahogany gas-pipes is a venerable native witticism. It is the facetious Gaelic sally of a person without Gaelic. Suitably mouthed, it sounds frightfully Irish. Leaguers resent it as a sneer.

Dead zones are hypoxic areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.

With a pair of tweezers, he removed a dazzling rose-coloured crystal from the brifka

Barry → Baz, Sharon → Shaz