She told him fish or cut bait. Her and the kid, or him and the Army. He chose the Army.

Coordinate term: acquisitionism

On the phone, he sounded thrilled about the baby.

It preserves the Jonsonian spellings ‘præsent’ and ‘præsenteth’ in lines 143 and 197. The punctuation, usually good, has two peculiarities, an habitual use of the colon and an erratic way of writing the indefinite article ‘a’ with an apostrophe […]