Watch Those Lengthy Conversations: Stick to the 5-minute rule. How many times have you heard yackers say, Well, I guess we've used up our five when they've been talking for an hour.

His Chevrolet was larger, but old and unwashed; the mudguards had been dented, cut, welded; one door had been ducoed in a lustreless colour that did not exactly match […]

Mispeake not al, for his amisse, there bin that keepen flocks, That never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mockes.

Settlerism marked a significant change in the attitudes of people, especially the English, towards migration. Migration within the Anglophone world, particularly to America, was no longer perceived as a desperate act that lowered one's status, as was common in the colonial period. Rather it was a hopeful act, a more positive move than simply escaping hardship, which raised one's status.