The debate turned into thoughtless bickering.

John Barclay and [Stuart] McInally controlled the tackle area, denying England quick possession and fracturing the champions’ supply line, Simon Berghan anchored the scrum and behind Finn Russell, missing in action in the opening two rounds, fulfilled his captain Barclay’s prediction on the eve of the game that he would be the man of the match.

It appeared to clinch a deal, and was meant to sound the same as the more soldierly Good to go, except it was promiseless — mere affirmative description.

The excretory vessels form a hairpin loop just inside the phyllidium (Pl. 5 Fg.1). It seems strange that the excretory vessels do not extend to the margins of these giant phyllidia since they invariably do in other forms with large phyllidia such as Phyllobothrium lactuca, etc.