Living pictures of the early boroughs, country life in Tudor and Stuart times, the impact of the industrial revolution compete with sensitive surveys of language and literature, the common law, parliamentary development.

For punched-card or tape storage of information all literature values must be conformed to a common language.

Pseudocode, flowcharts and control tables are structured ways to express algorithms that avoid many of the ambiguities common in natural language statements.

One camp, often called the " Altaicists ", views these similarities as arising from common descent from a proto-Altaic language spoken several thousand years ago.

Altogether, Starostin concluded that the Altaic grouping was substantiated, though " older than most other language families in Eurasia, such as Indo-European or Finno-Ugric, and this is the reason why the modern Altaic languages preserve few common elements ".

But, such complete secret languages are rare, because the speakers usually have some public language in common, on which the argot is largely based.

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.

Likewise, Oscar Wilde wrote, " We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language " ( The Canterville Ghost, 1888 ).

In the Neo-Assyrian period the Aramaic language became increasingly common, more so than Akkadian — this was thought to be largely due to the mass deportations undertaken by Assyrian kings, in which large Aramaic-speaking populations, conquered by the Assyrians, were relocated to Assyria and interbred with the Assyrians.

The Arabs greatly increased the knowledge of astronomical cycles, and many of the star names that remain in common use today, such as Aldebaran, Altair, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Vega retain the legacy of their language.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

Kirundi is the common language.

BCPL was the first brace programming language, and the braces survived the syntactical changes and have become a common means of denoting program source code statements.

The most common view today accepts Martin Noth's thesis that Kings concludes a unified series of books which reflect the language and theology of the Book of Deuteronomy, and which biblical scholars therefore call the Deuteronomistic history.

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".

The word " language " also refers to common properties of languages.

United States federal courts only act as interpreters of statutes and the constitution by elaborating and precisely defining the broad language ( connotation 1 ( b ) above ), but, unlike state courts, do not act as an independent source of common law ( connotation 1 ( a ) above ).

Although the possession of a common language shows that its speakers have lived together and have a common history, peoples also change languages.

The uniform fiscal year ensures conformance with another common sense rule, that of having cash in the bank before checks are drawn.

Gulf's holdings could have been converted into 2,700,877 shares of Union Oil common upon surrender of debentures plus cash, according to Union.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

An important legal requirement for common carrier as public provider is that it cannot discriminate, that is refuse the service unless there is some compelling reason ( e. g. post doesn't allow to send cash ).

Dividends are usually paid in the form of cash, store credits ( common among retail consumers ' cooperatives ) and shares in the company ( either newly created shares or existing shares bought in the market.

The use of cheques in a scam hinges on a US law ( and common practice in other countries ) concerning cheques: when an account holder presents a cheque for deposit or to cash, the bank must ( or in other countries, usually ) make the funds available to the account holder within 1 – 5 business days, regardless of how long it actually takes for the cheque to clear and funds to be transferred from the issuing bank.

In commerce, payment in kind was still common, though contracts usually stipulated cash, naming the currency expected — that of Babylon, Larsa, Assyria, Carchemish, etc.

This fee structure is common in low-stakes cash games.

It is more common now for payments may be made in cash, by credit card, by pre-paid card, or by an electronic toll collection system.

The latest TTW versions of the Personas line, introduced in 2000 and marketed as M-Series added functions such as cash recycling, coin dispense, barcode reading, a larger 12 " LCD display with touchscreen option, and for the first time, a common wall footprint for both the Multifunction ( 5886 ) or single function ( 5887 ).

Hasbro Interactive's sale price was $ 100 million being $ 95 million as 4. 5 million common shares of Infogrames and $ 5 million in cash.

A personal balance sheet lists current assets such as cash in checking accounts and savings accounts, long-term assets such as common stock and real estate, current liabilities such as loan debt and mortgage debt due, or overdue, long-term liabilities such as mortgage and other loan debt.

Ultimately, the town paid the railroad $ 18, 000 in cash and half of the town's common lands for a railroad connection, and by December 1905 the tracks had been laid and a depot built about a mile from the city.

On March 7, 2011 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was purchased by Western Digital Corporation for $ 3. 5 billion in cash and $ 750 million in Western Digital common stock.

The acquisition closed on October 13, 2008 for USD 165 million, consisting of USD 118 million in cash and IHS common stock valued at USD 47 million.

Two common accounting methods, cash basis accounting and accrual basis accounting, do not use the same process for measuring revenue.

The most common way of accounting for petty cash expenditures is to use the imprest system.

In January 2001, IESA purchased Hasbro Interactive and the handheld game console Game. com from Hasbro for $ 100 million ; with $ 95 million as 4. 5 million common shares of Infogrames and $ 5 million in cash.

On July 19, 2005, Metro, Inc. announced that it had reached an agreement with The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc. and its subsidiary, A & P Luxembourg S. à. r. l., to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of A & P Canada, for an acquisition price of $ 1. 7 billion, consisting of $ 1. 2 billion in cash and $ 500 million in the form of treasury shares of Metro.

Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning ( since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test ) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket.

MCA finally agreed to sell to Acclaim Entertainment in March 1990 for cash and Acclaim common stock for 30 to 50 percent.

Another common arbitrage strategy aims to exploit the fact that the swap-adjusted spread of a CDS should trade closely with that of the underlying cash bond issued by the reference entity.

In regions with a tropical climate, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, bananas, oranges, cotton and jute ( a soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads ), are common cash crops.

In finance, a convertible note ( a convertible debenture if it has a maturity of greater than 10 years ) is a type of bond that the holder can convert into shares of common stock in the issuing company or cash of equal value, at an agreed-upon price.