Circs

I'm covered as far as iPod and automobile go as I have a solid library of music I've ripped from CD and purchased. But music throughout the house is trickier. And, under normal circs, subscription is no answer.

Charlie Gilmour's father is an old Etonian poet; his stepfather a superannuated rock star worth around £78m whose most famous ditty insisted, somewhat amusingly under the circs, that "We don't need no education."

All this royal pomp and circs and magnificence and significance and sacred music and you are, quite rightly, your unaffected modern English selves.

"They were trapped in circs that they didn't know anything about, that they could not have foreseen […]