Not likemathematics, or true love. And ‘I don’t’ would seem tobe a linguistic gamechanger. If a rhyme concurs in therealm of sound, it seems more liberal – though twee –compared with the plural/singular black hole of‘agreement’. As with the semantics of doffing one’s cap,removal or a gentle touch concur in their courteousgesture: let’s not be fascists about this. Mike FergusonPicture Rupert Loydell.