Except in the word "the".

[maths] That's just so much hyperbolics. [/maths]

...would've been a worse option.

Trigonometry is all about sin and secs.

The invention of the car owes very much to the development of the hubcap which was first patented in 1789 and then stoodly idly for a century of so until somebody scraped off the rust and invented something for it to go on.