Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as 卡通 " cartoon ", 基佬 " gay people ", 的士 " taxi ", and 巴士 " bus ".

A key aim was to base categorization on colloquial English descriptive language ( which would be easier to use by federal administrative offices ), rather than assumptions of etiology, although its categorical approach assumed each particular pattern of symptoms in a category reflected a particular underlying pathology ( an approach described as " neo-Kraepelinian ").

Canadian rule books use the term goal area instead of end zone, but the latter term is the more common in colloquial Canadian English.

A computer-based course in colloquial Estonian using English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, or Hungarian as the source language.

In addition, speakers of colloquial English frequently contract forms of to be after pronouns or before the word not.

Additionally, ' bra ' is sometimes used in colloquial English as an alteration of ' bro ', a shortening of ' brother ' with a meaning akin to ' companion '.

* as a colloquial abbreviation for homogenized milk ( Canadian English )

In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.

* In Jewish folklore, rabbits ( shfanim שפנים ) are associated with cowardice, a usage still current in contemporary Israeli spoken Hebrew ( similar to English colloquial use of " chicken " to denote cowardice ).

The range of accents found amongst English-speaking Coloureds ( from the distinctive " Cape Flats or Coloured English " to the standard " colloquial " South African English accent ) are of special interest.

Regardless of regional and ethnic differences ( in accents ), the " colloquial " South African English accent is often confused with Australian ( or New Zealand ) English by British and American English speakers.

Instead, Williams preferred colloquial American English.

The novel is notable stylistically for its use of an invented Lunar dialect consisting predominantly of standard English and Australian colloquial words but strongly influenced by Russian grammar, especially omission of article " the ", which does not exist in most Slavic languages ( cf.

* Gell / gelle or wa, wat or wahr (" true " or " correct ") or nä / ne / net ( from nicht, " not ") are used in ( very ) colloquial German to express a positive interrogative at the end of a sentence, much as Eh is used in Canadian English.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the colloquial term originated in the United States, and is now used in various English-speaking countries.

* A colloquial name for the Common wasp in southern England and the English Midlands

Although the majority of slangisms are ephemeral and often supplanted by new ones, some gain non-slang colloquial status ( e. g. English silly – cf.

This is akin to kid meaning " child " in modern colloquial English.

In colloquial English and Afrikaans the word muti is often used to refer to medicines in general or medicines that have a ' miraculous ' effect, e. g.

Familiar or colloquial terms for mother in English are:

Dort was a contemporary English term for the town of Dordrecht ( and it remains the local colloquial pronunciation ).

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

* The ablative case is also important to comparative statements in colloquial Armenian.

Alcopop is a colloquial term describing certain flavored alcoholic beverages, including:

Although commonly used in a colloquial and less-violent sense, the phrase is particularly associated with a specific sociopathic culture-bound syndrome in Malaysian culture.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

Although mesoclisis is extremely formal in Brazilian Portuguese and tends to be circumscribed in lesser formal registers by avoiding synthetical future / conditional verb forms, European Portuguese still allows clitic object pronouns to surface as mesoclitics in colloquial situations:

The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the state of Colorado in the United States.

In Australia and South Africa, the colloquial term " China " is derived from " mate " rhyming with " China plate " ( the identical form, heard in expressions like " me old China " is also a long-established Cockney idiom ).

In addition, those German prepositions that require the genitive in formal language, tend to be used with the dative in contemporary colloquial German ; for example, " because of the weather " is often expressed as " wegen dem Wetter " instead of the formally correct " wegen des Wetters ".

FFT algorithms are so commonly employed to compute DFTs that the term " FFT " is often used to mean " DFT " in colloquial settings.

Though colloquial use of the word Doktor for physician is common.

The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindi word and as a colloquial Anglo-Indian word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases ( 1903 ).

Masses are sometimes described as gravitational charges, the important feature of them being that there is only one type ( no negative masses ), or, in more colloquial terms, ' gravity is always attractive '.

It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music.

This colloquial usage of the term is also common in medicine and in nutrition (" take plenty of fluids ").

Otchizna is considered to be very formal, and typically used by government heads, whereas Rodina is more colloquial and widespread.

Officially, " electoral district " is generally used, although government documents sometimes use the colloquial term.

* A colloquial adjective referring to the large budget video games, and is generally associated with a high level of quality.

Although the generally accepted human-resources meaning for the " E " in FTE is " equivalent ", the term is often overloaded in colloquial usage to indicate a " direct, as opposed to contract, full-time employee ".

Although a treble, or choirboy, may also be considered to be a boy soprano, the more colloquial term boy soprano is generally only used for boys who sing, perform, or record as soloists, and who may not necessarily be choristers who sing in a boys ' choir.

This convention is followed generally in colloquial speech and is reflected in publications such as the Native American newspaper Indian Country Today

In colloquial usage, the term can be more generally used to establish rapport with those with whom the speaker is not familiar, somewhat analogously to English terms such as " boss " or " gov ' nor ".

The slang or colloquial term tinnie or tinny has a variety of meanings, generally derived from some association with the metal tin, or aluminium foil which has a loose allusion to tin.

It is also known as Palestine yellow scorpion, Omdurman scorpion, Israeli desert scorpion and numerous other colloquial names, which generally originate from the commercial captive trade of the animal.

However, given that the syncretic and academic name Catalan-Valencian-Balearic has not succeeded-beyond the title of an excellent dictionary and the name given by Ethnologue — Catalan is generally the colloquial name accepted by linguists to refer to the whole system.

There is perhaps a bit too much of the chorus galavanting about delivering their increasingly colloquial admonitions and too few convulsive laughs, but the writer-director has generally pitched the humor at a pleasing and relatively consistent level.