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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cavalorn" data-source="post: 2014294" data-attributes="member: 15377">Horripilations are the sensations caused by hair standing up on the back of one's neck and arms.A dandelion clock is a dandelion in its puffy, seed-releasing stage; English children have a game whereby the amount of puffs it takes to blow all the seeds from the dandelion is said to be the hour of the day.Spilth is, in this context, a spilled bodily substance.  I was referring to an old Chinese legend about the origin of jade, as I recall. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I will try to refrain from Englishisms in future.  I am indeed English and sometimes forget that the phrases we use over here are not in circulation in other parts of the world!  (I did not, for example, realise that the A standard of paper measuring was not in use outside Europe...) Thank you very much for drawing this to my attention and rest assured I will be acting on it in future work.- Adrian</blockquote>