US eyes Darwin Port prise.

That, in case you missed it, was the hedline on the frunt page of last Chewsday’s Australain. I was initially inclined to give the subeditor responsible the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps ‘prise’ had been a deliberate choice; a punning reference to the geo-political leverage which control of the port in question might give the US government in its increasingly frosty dealings with China? But as I’m sure my page-mate Kel will confirm, even according to American spellcheck software, ‘prise’ is a verb, and one which cannot moonlight as a noun.