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To have the results recorded in everyday usable English should be of benefit to all who seek the truth.
< li > Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent .</ li >
Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, " gryphon " appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers.
In one study by Boroditsky, in which native speakers of German and Spanish were asked to describe everyday objects in English, she found that they were more likely to use attributes conventionally associated with the genders of the objects in their native languages.
This derogatory form of the noun " hack " derives from the everyday English sense " to cut or shape by or as if by crude or ruthless strokes " and is even used among users of the positive sense of " hacker " who produces " cool " or " neat " hacks.
In everyday English, " Mandarin " refers to Standard Chinese, which is often called simply " Chinese ".
Traditionally, Received Pronunciation was the " everyday speech in the families of Southern English persons whose men-folk been educated at the great public boarding-schools " and which conveyed no information about that speaker's region of origin prior to attending the school.
Though singular they is widespread in everyday English and has a long history of usage, debate continues about its acceptability.
In The Protestant Ethic, Weber argues that capitalism arose in Europe in part because of how the belief in predestination was interpreted by everyday English Puritans.
In English, the term uterus is used consistently within the medical and related professions, while the Germanic-derived term womb is more common in everyday usage.
* Traditional forms of English, in which words like man and he applied to both genders, are falling out of everyday use and are likely to be misinterpreted, especially by younger readers.
Usually the word ukiyo is literally translated as " floating world " in English, referring to a conception of an evanescent world, impermanent, fleeting beauty and a realm of entertainments ( kabuki, courtesans, geisha ) divorced from the responsibilities of the mundane, everyday world ; " pictures of the floating world ", i. e. ukiyo-e, are considered a genre unto themselves.
In everyday English, " berry " is a term for any small edible fruit.
The phrase remains in everyday use in the English language.
Like the English portrait painter, Bellman drew detailed pictures of his time in his songs, not so much of life at court as of ordinary people's everyday ".
Katz describes it in " Words on Fire: the Unfinished Story of Yiddish " ( 2004 ) as a " new dialect of English ," which is " taking over as the vernacular in everyday life in some ... circles in America and elsewhere.
Furthermore, only a minority of the huge vocabulary of the English language is used in everyday speech: the remainder is mainly used in technical, literary and other contexts where the written language is the primary means of communication, and in many cases the majority of speakers of the language are unsure of the correct pronunciation.
* Manglish 1: refers to the English of the English-medium educated where English is still a true second language ; being used by its speakers in everyday conversation.
One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
" Silverstein has demonstrated that these ideologies are not mere false consciousness but actually influence the evolution of linguistic structures, including the dropping of " thee " and " thou " from everyday English usage.
Borrowed English words are also commonly used in everyday Vietnamese both inside and outside Vietnam in informal contexts.
* British people in Argentina use " camp " for " countryside " ( from " campo ") and drop many everyday formal and slang Spanish words into English (" I'll take the colectivo " ( bus )).
The efforts made by the program have allowed everyday life in the English colonial port city to be reconstructed with great detail.

everyday and usage
The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only.
The informal content of this naive set theory supports both the aspects of mathematical sets familiar in discrete mathematics ( for example Venn diagrams and symbolic reasoning about their Boolean algebra ), and the everyday usage of set theory concepts in most contemporary mathematics.
Common examples in everyday usage include:
The volt is so strongly identified as the unit of choice for measurement and description of electric potential difference that the term voltage sees greater everyday usage.
In everyday usage, mass is referred to as " weight ", the units of which may be pounds or kilograms ( for instance, a person's weight may be stated as 75 kg ).
In everyday usage infix notation is the most common, however other notations also exist, such as the prefix and postfix notations.
The word property, in everyday usage, refers to an object ( or objects ) owned by a person — a car, a book, or a cellphone — and the relationship the person has to it.
The first and often most desirable type among advanced collectors is a cover sent through the mail in the course of everyday usage, without the intention of the envelope and stamp ever being retrieved and collected.
Like velocity, speed has the dimensions of a length divided by a time ; the SI unit of speed is the meter per second, but the most usual unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometer per hour or, in the USA and the UK, miles per hour.
In everyday speech, vagueness is an inevitable, often even desired effect of language usage.
Some examples of usage include cellular phones which are part of everyday wireless networks, allowing easy personal communications.
In everyday usage the term " weight " is commonly used to mean mass, which scientifically is an entirely different concept.
However in light of the role of language usage in everyday social class distinctions, many feel that linguistics should be descriptive rather than prescriptive to avoid reinforcing dominant class value judgments about what linguistic forms should and should not be used.
Julian and Sandy and their use of the gay slang polari gave the country a sympathetic weekly portrayal of non-threatening openly gay characters, many of whose catchphrases passed into everyday usage.
The most common term in everyday usage is pavement.
As part of the change, the police service dropped the word " Royal " from everyday usage and adopted a new badge that included the crown, harp, and shamrock, an attempt at shared identification with both communities.
In South Africa, under Apartheid, the term township ( or location ) in everyday usage, came to mean a residential development that confined non-whites ( Blacks, " coloureds ," and Indians ) living near or working in white-only communities.
However common usage is that it includes D. C. and simply means the contiguous US as a region, as there is no typical need to politically separate D. C. from the region in everyday speech.
The Canadian city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario ( formerly known as Sudbury and still referred to as Sudbury in everyday usage ) was named after Sudbury, becoming a settlement in 1883 following the discovery of rich nickel and copper ores there during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Bessemer's status in that respect has largely been supplanted by other Birmingham suburbs such as Hoover, but Bessemer retains its own branch courthouse to this day, and the term " Bessemer Cutoff " remains in everyday usage by area residents.
With the construction of a centralized post office in Upper Black Eddy, the usage of separate names for the smaller towns ceased in an official capacity, and the everyday errands of residents became centered around the largest of the towns.
Also in German, where marmalade is much less popular than jam anyway, Marmelade is the traditional designation for any kind of jam and marmalade ( especially smooth jam without visible pieces of fruit ) regardless of fruit base, and remains so in everyday language, in spite of EU regulation which, in official commercial usage, limits the term Marmelade to citrus-based preserves to minimise international confusion.

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