'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

I'll always be a foreigner.