Sociological jargon, Germano-Slavic approximations to English, third-rate but modish fiction, and outrages to common sense have often disfigured Partisan, and in lesser degree, the other magazines on the list.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

Jurisprudence is based on English common law.

The most common English pronunciation of Aphrodite is.

In common hagiographical fashion, the Vita Alcuini asserts that Alcuin was ' of noble English stock ,' and this statement has usually been accepted by scholars.

In English law, s58 Children Act 2004, limits the availability of the lawful correction defense to common assault under s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988.

English law provides for two offences of assault: common assault and battery.

English is the most common language in the United States.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

* Lit as the past tense of light is more common than lighted in the UK ; American English uses lit to mean " set afire " / " kindled " / " made to emit light " but lighted to mean " cast light upon " ( e. g., " The stagehand lighted the set and then lit a cigarette .").

White deer are common in English legends and often used as symbols of Christian virtue.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror ( in ) of ordinary people ( the lieges ).

In the United States the English common law as to affray applies, subject to certain modifications by the statutes of particular states.

The most common use of the term is in the case of English peerage dignities.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

The Black Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color terms — the others being the Red Sea, the White Sea and the Yellow Sea.

British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

Barbadian law is rooted historically on English common law, and the Constitution of Barbados implemented in 1966, is supreme law of the land.

It is common to see films that feature dialogue with English words ( also known as Hinglish ), phrases, or even whole sentences.

St. Jerome differed with St. Augustine in his Latin translation of the plant known in Hebrew as קיקיון ( qiyqayown ), using Hedera ( from the Greek, meaning ivy ) over the more common Latin cucurbita from which the related English plant name cucumber is derived.

( For this reason, many modern American law schools teach the common law of crime as it stood in England in 1789, because that centuries-old English common law is a necessary foundation to interpreting modern criminal statutes.

In common parlance they would be described as misses -- misinterpreters, misunderstanders, misdirectors and kindred misdeeds.

Like the Authorized King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare, many words and phrases from the Book of Common Prayer have entered common parlance.

As a result, the term " eureka " entered common parlance and is used today to indicate a moment of enlightenment.

Technically, rated ships with fewer than 28 guns could not be classed as frigates but as " post ships "; however, in common parlance most post ships were often described as " frigates ", the same casual misuse of the term being extended to smaller two-decked ships that were too small to stand in the line of battle.

Ostdeutschland ( an ambiguous term meaning simultaneously East or Eastern Germany ) was not commonly used in East or West German common parlance to refer to the German Democratic Republic, because Ostdeutschland usually referred to the former eastern territories of Germany.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development of the Westrex single-groove stereophonic record cutterhead led to the next wave of home-audio improvement, and in common parlance, stereo displaced hi-fi.

However, in common parlance sometimes people use the general term takkanah to refer either gezeirot or takkanot.

In the later Roman Empire the classical Latin word for horse, equus, was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin caballus, sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish caballos .< ref > Xavier Delamarre, entry on caballos, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise ( Éditions Errance, 2003 ), p. 96.

Nowadays, in common parlance, land mines generally refer to devices specifically manufactured as anti-personnel or anti-vehicle weapons.

However, the OO community was beginning to recognize the benefits that industry standardization would bring: not just a good way of doing things, but the good way, which would lead to common parlance and practice among developers.

Similarly, in common parlance, the opposite of a dove is a hawk or war hawk.

In common parlance a republic is a state that does not practice direct democracy but rather has a government indirectly controlled by the people.

In common parlance, the term " social class ," is usually synonymous with " socio-economic class ," defined as: " people having the same social, economic, or educational status ," e. g., " the working class "; " an emerging professional class.

In everyday parlance the term quay is common in the United Kingdom, Canada and many other Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term wharf is more common in the United States.

In common parlance and legal usage, it is often used imprecisely to mean illicit drugs, irrespective of their pharmacology.

* Frindle, a children's novel in which a fictitious word passes into common parlance

During his reign he said use of the word nigger was " disgraceful " despite it then being in common parlance.

In common parlance political and constitutional aspects ( e. g. giving citizens or their elected representatives more power in political decision-making, establishment of subnational political entities for decision making and making them politically accountable to local electorate which often entails constitutional or statutory reforms like providing for representation of the member states, the strengthening of legislatures, creation of local political units along with the encouragement of effective public interest groups and pluralistic political parties ) are considered crucial for federalism.

In addition some of the terms are used differently in common parlance than they are by medical professionals.

In common parlance, however, the word " menopause " usually refers not to one day, but to the whole of the menopause transition years.

In common parlance, the difference between a " spore " and a " gamete " ( both together called gonites ) is that a spore will germinate and develop into a sporeling, while a gamete needs to combine with another gamete before developing further.

A trial at a criminal court, the Old Bailey in London In common parlance, law means a rule which ( unlike a rule of ethics ) is capable of enforcement through institutions.

This means that, in common parlance, the term " Rolemaster Second Edition " ( RM2 ) is often used to refer everything published from 1984 to 1994.