It is full of hilarious, high-brow Gallic indignation at the introduction of anglicisms — le doping (dopage is preferred); crash et crasher; and mackintosh (i.e., a Scottish raincoat — the computer, as the editors point out, doesn't have a "k") — into the pure tongue of Villon and Colette.
Perhaps most infamously, voters preferred "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain," a groundbreaking masterpiece if we've ever seen one.
That muscle is corralled by electronic systems guarding traction, launches and wheelies, each of which can be separately deactivated if the rider prefers to crash – er, control it manually.
Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) Model is preferred to develop crash prediction model with significant variables.
Mixed up by his mother's death and neglected by a father who prefers making money, Karan loves crashing his dad's expensive cars as well as "extreme sports, break-dancing and hip-hop" and everything else wankers like doing.
We'd had preferred it if Chris hadn't crashed but he felt fine in the final bit.
We'd have preferred it if he hadn't crashed but we all know it is part and parcel of the rough and tumble of pro-bike racing".
Although China Airlines is still 72%-owned by a government-controlled foundation and has one of Asia's worst airline safety records in the past decade (EVA, by contrast, has never had a crash), investors have preferred it to EVA.
Barclays did not, it is true, sell shares directly to HM Treasury during the great crash, preferring to punt them at the Qatari authorities instead.
Then she came crashing down to earth with the claim that she preferred the Tories to Labour: toxic for the SNP.
