That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Instead a different process, that of producing an alternative book, led to the publication of Series 1, 2 and 3 in the 1960s, the 1980 Alternative Service Book and subsequently to the 2000 Common Worship series of books.

BCE is the abbreviation for Before the Common / Current / Christian Era ( an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC ).

* Common Era ( CE ) ( also Christian Era or Current Era ), secular alternative to Anno Domini ( AD )

Common alternative spellings are provided with cross-references such as " Color: see Colour.

Standards such as DVB's Common Interface and ATSC's CableCARD therefore use a PCMCIA-like card inserted as part of the digital signal path as their alternative to a tuner-equipped set-top box.

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may be related to the root of the Proto-Celtic * lug-rā ‘ moon ’ ( the origin of Welsh lloer, though Peter Schrijver suggests an alternative etymology for lloer, from Common Celtic * lus-rā, where the root would be cognate with that of Latin luridus * lus-idus " pale yellow ").

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

The Anglican Church of England uses the name " Thursday before Easter " in the Book of Common Prayer, and " Holy Thursday " as an alternative name for Ascension Day.

( The Book of Common Prayer allows for an alternative to the Magnificat — the Cantate Domino, Psalm 98 — and modern Anglican rubrics generally allow for a wider selection of canticles, but the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis remain the most popular.

However, none of these alternative standards has been as widely adopted as Unicode, which is now the base character set for many new standards and protocols, and is built into the architecture of operating systems ( Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and many Unix-like systems ), programming languages ( Perl, Python, C #, Java, Common LISP, APL ), and libraries ( IBM International Components for Unicode ( ICU ) along with the Pango, Graphite, Scribe, Uniscribe, and ATSUI rendering engines ), font formats ( TrueType and OpenType ) and so on.

An older alternative name, Common Waterhen, is a more descriptive because of the bird's habitat.

Maxima does not include many of the numerous features added during the period of commercial development between 1982 – 1999, but is a current, free, open codebase that includes numerous additional features, several alternative front ends, and works with a number of Common Lisp engines.

Common verbs may be replaced by more polite alternative verbs, for example, suru ( do ) by nasaru, or hanasu ( talk ) by ossharu when the subject is a person of respect.

* Common Address Redundancy Protocol-open source, patent-free and unrestricted alternative to HSRP and VRRP

* Common Address Redundancy Protocol ( CARP )-A non-proprietary, patent-free, and unrestricted alternative to HSRP and VRRP.

Common topics include culture or entertainment topics, such independent or alternative music.

Like the ASB it is an alternative to the Book of Common Prayer ( BCP ) of 1662, which remains officially the normative liturgy of the Church of England.

Forms of services that were alternative to equivalents in the Book of Common Prayer were debated by Synod and revised by a synodical Revision Committee in the light of the comments made by Synod members and the wider public.

The Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church treats " Holy Thursday " as an alternative name for Ascension Day.

Old Norwegian had an alternative dual first person pronoun, mit, to the Common Norse vit.

The OTRAG Rocket represents an inexpensive alternative to existing launch systems through mass-production of Common Rocket Propulsion Units ( CRPU ).

Common logic styles used in CPU design include:

As ragga matured, an increasing number of dancehall artists began to appropriate stylistic elements of hip hop music, while ragga music, in turn, influenced more and more hip hop artists, most notably KRS-One, the Boot Camp Clik, Das EFX, Busta Rhymes, as well as some artists with ragga-influenced styles, like early Common, Main Source, Ill Al Scratch, Fu-Schnickens, and Redman.

Common styles of ITF point sparring equipment

Common design elements include hats ( typically shakos, pith helmets, combination hats or other styles of helmets ) with feather plumes, capes, gloves, rank cords, and other embellishments.

The implementation was constrained by the need to allow data-structures to be shared with the other Poplog languages, especially POP-11 and Common Lisp, thereby providing support for a mixture of programming styles.

Common choices for an apéritif are vermouth, champagne, fino, amontillado ( or other styles of sherry ) and any still, dry, light white wine.

Common styles available in supermarkets are:

Common styles:

Common teddy styles today include:

Common current and past architectural styles of private residences.

Common styles range from " journalistic " to " cinematic ".

For example, in modern Western cultures, there are alternative styles of clothing that characterized older and younger generations.

" Over the course of Hole's career, the band experimented with several different styles, from punk to noise rock as well as more mellow alternative rock, power pop, and folk techniques.

Pissarro now expressed his opinion to the group that he wanted an alternative to the Salon so their group could display their own unique styles.

The term nowadays applies more to youth sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, aggressive inline skating, FMX and BMX and is closely associated with marketing aimed at the younger generation, and their favored styles of clothing and music, such as the urban baggy look associated with skateboarders and loud, fast alternative rock.

Inspired by openly gay punk musicians of an earlier generation such as Jayne County, Phranc, Darby Crash and Randy Turner, and bands like Nervous Gender, The Screamers, and Coil, queercore embraces a variety of punk and other alternative music styles.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s in America, various underground scenes either directly evolved from punk or at least applied its attitudes to new styles, in the process producing the alternative rock and indie music scenes.

In the 1980s and 1990s, several American bands began to combine polka with various rock styles ( sometimes referred to as " punk polka "), " alternative polka ", or " San Francisco-style ".

Over the course of their career, Incubus has utilized elements from a variety of genres and styles, including alternative rock, heavy metal, electro, funk, funk metal, jazz, hip hop, nu metal, rap metal, techno and trip hop.

* various Sultans on the Comoros ; however on the Comoros, the normally used styles were alternative native titles, including Mfalme, Phany or Jambé and the ' hegemonic ' title Sultani tibe

Some hardcore bands began experimenting with other styles as their careers progressed in the 1980s, becoming known as alternative rock.

He influenced Alexandrian poets searching for alternative styles and uses of language, such as Callimachus and Herodas, and his colourful reputation as an acerbic, social critic also made him a popular subject for verse, as in this epigram by Theocritus:

By the time the group released their first album in 1986 the Parisian alternative music scene had taken flight, and Manu, his brother Antoine Chao, and friends such as Alain from Les Wampas formed Los Carayos to incorporate this sound with the rockabilly and punk styles of Hot Pants.

The resulting music differed drastically from Mano Negra ; the songs were primarily sung in Spanish with far fewer French tracks and the musical style had shifted from punk and alternative styles to the street vibe Chao was aiming for.

Three establishments in Floyd regularly offer a variety of live music during the weekends ranging from traditional styles such as Bluegrass to contemporary and alternative acts.

The present British stand-up comedy circuit arose from the ' alternative ' comedy revolution of the 1980s, with political and observational humour being the prominent styles to flourish.

The terms alternative rock and indie rock were used interchangeably in the 1980s, but after many alternative bands followed Nirvana into the mainstream in the early 1990s it began to be used to distinguish those bands, working in a variety of styles, that did not pursue or achieve commercial success.

This trend coincided with a similar surf rock revival, and both styles fed in into the alternative rock movement and future grunge explosion, which some say was partially inspired by garage rock from the Tacoma area like The Sonics and The Wailers, but was largely unknown by fans outside the immediate circles of the bands themselves.

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as ( in terms of the varying music styles ) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

While their early work was described as punk revival, they have since developed a more rounded rock sound, including alternative rock, and melodic hardcore styles.

* No Depression, focus on alternative country styles.

Hardcore, punk, and garage rock were the roots of alternative rock, a diverse grouping of rock subgenres that were explicitly opposed to mainstream music, and that arose from the punk and post-punk styles.

New styles appeared in the latter part of the 1980s, like alternative hip hop and the closely related jazz rap fusion, pioneered by rappers like De La Soul.

Their unique stew of different styles was a great influence on several subsequent alternative bands.