Widespread use of electronic communication through mobile phones and the Internet during the 1990s allowed for a marked rise in colloquial abbreviation.

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

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 ").

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

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

This colloquial use of the term is quite common within the scientific community and it is mostly used to dismiss a theory as questionable science.

In North America the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas but some people use the term petrol which is the common name in Britain.

The term " Middle Ages " and especially the adjective medieval can also have a negative ring in colloquial use (" the barbaric treatment of prisoners in such-and-such a prison is almost medieval ") but this does not carry over into academic terminology.

Plautus ’ use of colloquial dialogue aids in understanding, to a certain extent, how the Romans greeted each other.

The " rationality " described by rational choice theory is different from the colloquial and most philosophical use of the word.

* 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 name Thera was revived in the nineteenth century as the official name of the island and its main city, but the colloquial name Santorini is still in popular use.

Although the most common colloquial use of the word " collision " refers to accidents in which two or more objects collide, the scientific use of the word " collision " implies nothing about the magnitude of the forces.

Although the two words reproducibility and repeatability can be synonymous in colloquial use, they are deliberately contrasted in the context of the scientific method.

In Spain, modern colloquial Spanish use of the term " Moro " is derogatory for Moroccans in particular and North Africans in general.

In speech, the Dutch seldom use the formal &# 39 ; s-Hertogenbosch but rather the colloquial Den Bosch.

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.

" Some colloquial text in the south of Vietnam and from the church may still use the old form to mean Sunday.

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

In colloquial use, however, carp usually refers only to several larger cyprinid species such as Cyprinus carpio ( common carp ), Carassius carassius ( Crucian carp ), Ctenopharyngodon idella ( grass carp ), Hypophthalmichthys molitrix ( silver carp ), and Hypophthalmichthys nobilis ( bighead carp ).

Ironically, breeders tend to use the more formal " cavy " to describe the animal, while in scientific and laboratory contexts it is far more commonly referred to by the more colloquial " guinea pig ".

Unitarian theologian Charles Francis Potter stated about the NWT: " Apart from a few semantic peculiarities like translating the Greek word stauros, as " stake " instead of " cross ", and the often startling use of the colloquial and the vernacular, the anonymous translators have certainly rendered the best manuscript texts, both Greek and Hebrew, with scholarly ability and acumen.

Back-formations frequently begin in colloquial use and only gradually become accepted.

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 '.

In colloquial usage, the terms " Turing complete " or " Turing equivalent " are used to mean that any real-world general-purpose computer or computer language can approximately simulate any other real-world general-purpose computer or computer language, within the bounds of finite memory – they are linear bounded automaton complete.

But neither expression is commonly used: for ordinary French people, the more genuine terms rumeur or canular, not to mention more colloquial and expressive words, describe this phenomenon of " viral spread tall story " properly enough.

In human anatomical terms, the leg is the part of the lower extremity that lies between the knee and the ankle, the thigh is between the hip and knee and the term " lower extremity " is used to describe the colloquial leg.

For example people might say their passions made them behave contrary to reason, or that their reason kept the passions under control ( often expressed in colloquial terms as the dilemma between following " the head " ( reason ) " or the heart " ( emotions )).

There are a number of colloquial terms for postal code.

Several colloquial terms used to refer to central obesity, and to people who have it, refer to beer drinking.

" Love handles " and " spare tire " ( or " spare tyre ") are colloquial terms for deposits of fat around a person's midsection, especially visible on the sides over the abdominal external oblique muscle.

Statements expressed in Standard German are more commonly phrased in negative terms and outside of colloquial usage the ending interrogative is often nicht wahr, which invites a response of stimmt (" agreed ", literally " that's right ").

Within the story, Hobbits and other races seem aware of the similarities ( hence the colloquial terms " Big People " and " Little People " used in Bree ).

Other terms for the occupation include woodcutter, and the colloquial term woodhick ( Pennsylvania, US ).

Familiar or colloquial terms for mother in English are:

The difference between the two terms is colloquial, and flint can be seen as a variety of chert.

It is also known by the initials PFB or colloquial terms such as " razor bumps.

* The United States military academies officially use only numerical terms, but there are colloquial expressions used in everyday speech.

There are various colloquial terms, as a rule with slightly different connotations, for various forms and contexts of blunder.

The compound swagman and colloquial variation swaggie first appeared in the 1850s during the Australian gold rushes, alongside less common terms such as bundleman.

Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.

Relatively few Cantopop songs use truly colloquial Cantonese terms, and fewer songs contain lyrics.

Other terms are more colloquial, coined and used by practitioners in the field, and are similar to slang.

That this is possible for a set is not as counter-intuitive as it might seem if the terms open and closed were taken by their colloquial meaning as antonyms ; mathematically, they are not antonyms.

Their use when clothing is stored out-of-season gave rise to the colloquial usage of the terms " mothballed " and " put into mothballs " to refer to anything which is put into storage or whose operation is suspended.

The colloquial ' master ' and ' slave ' terms, though, were not formally used by the manufacturer.

"" and "" are terms still mentioned in the official rules for these two fundamental shot types, although "" and "" have become the colloquial terms for them in British English.