[…] they tend to be given as gifts as well[,] hence one is usually eating someone else's kurabiyes and not one's own. The word itself is Arabic, as is the basic recipe though it has passed into the kitchen of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews.

Such an incompatibility is often expressed as the ad hocness, arbitrariness or the explicitly-stated unphysicality of these hypotheses.

Meanwhile Charlie Bell reported the stable's latest acquisition: a very good jumper but, as far as he could determine to date, 'without a great turn of foot'.

El Niño has hit the headlines as a codeword for bad weather, especially in the Pacific and California. But there is a little more to it than that.