Also, a rough sinusoidal pattern can be seen in plotting average daily temperatures for each day of the year, although the graph may resemble an inverted cosine wave.

A friendly polar bear loving nothing more than an audience and climbing out of his snowy bed to give a cruise ship a wave was caught on camera by a photographer, the Daily Mail of London reported.

Perhaps the Daily Mail should take a leaf out of Jonathan Swift's book and instead of blaming changes in English on "a tidal wave of mindless Americanisms", start calling those damned poets to book.