Increasingly, telephone users wanted to conference call, forward, and record voice greetings, so common today.

Increasingly, in some countries, the call charges are fixed at a monthly rate and included as a supplement to the standing charges, known as inclusive calls.

Increasingly, since the 1970s, restaurants were promoting an entree of the thicker first joint of the wing, calling them " chickies " or " drummies ", to people who wanted the flavor of traditional " southern fried chicken " in about ten minutes, versus the twenty minutes or more needed to properly fry the thicker breast, thigh, or drumstick portions of a chicken.

Increasingly, as land privatization leads to the end of communal lands, women find themselves unable to use any land not bestowed upon them by their families, rendering unmarried women and widows vulnerable.

Increasingly, corporations are motivated to become more socially responsible because their most important stakeholders expect them to understand and address the social and community issues that are relevant to them.

Increasingly they adopted a Pacifist stance, including war tax resistance, which further brought them the ridicule of the larger community.

Increasingly, retailers are using barcodes on receipts that allow them to identify the transaction in their system later on.

Increasingly, digital calipers offer a serial data output to allow them to be interfaced with a dedicated recorder or a personal computer.

In her 2007 interview with Dave Hickey for The Believer, she noted, " Increasingly I ’ m less interested in writing about fictional people, because it seems so tiresome to make up a fake person and put them through the paces of a fake story.

Increasingly, responsibility was shifted from the assembly to the courts, with laws being made by jurors and all assembly decisions becoming reviewable by courts.

Increasingly, in accordance with romantic taste, these accounts also began to deal, amongst other topics, with aspects of childhood and upbringing — far removed from the principles of " Cellinian " autobiography.

Increasingly, they are provided from within firing units.

Increasingly a transit point for heroin being trafficked to Western Europe ; minor transit point for cannabis ; remains highly vulnerable to money-laundering activity given a primarily cash-based and unregulated economy, weak law enforcement, and instances of corruption.

Increasingly through the early 1930s, they characterized the Bauhaus as a front for communists and social liberals.

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

Increasingly, taxonomists try to name preferably or only taxa that are clades.

Increasingly, companies are looking to gain access to these conversations and take part in the dialogue.

Increasingly, dedicated cash registers are being replaced with general purpose computers with POS software.

Increasingly unstable after his wife's death, Poe attempted to court the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lived in Providence, Rhode Island.

Increasingly, critical scholars ascribe the epistle to an early follower writing as Paul.

Increasingly, after the calibration in 1958 of the cesium atomic clock by reference to ephemeris time, cesium atomic clocks running on the basis of ephemeris seconds began to be used and kept in step with ephemeris time.

Increasingly film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings.

Increasingly, however, it was Freud's idea of fantasy as a kind of ' screen-memory, representing something of more importance with which it was in some way connected ' that was for him of greater importance.

Increasingly in the 21st century flirting is taking forms in instant messaging, and other social media.

Increasingly attracted to parapsychology, Fellini met the Turin magician Gustavo Rol in 1963.

Increasingly, especially since the introduction of personal computers to the industry, many graphic designers have found themselves working within non-design oriented organizations, as in-house designers.

Increasingly after 1815, a centralized Prussian government based in Berlin took over the powers of the nobles, which in terms of control over the peasantry had been almost absolute.

Increasingly popular alternative construction materials include insulating concrete forms ( foam forms filled with concrete ), structural insulated panels ( foam panels faced with oriented strand board or fiber cement ), and light-gauge steel framing and heavy-gauge steel framing.

Increasingly, developers who favor command line tools are meeting resistance from project teams who depend on automated processes in IDEs to manage software development.

Increasingly, I – O psychologists are working for educational assessment and testing organizations and divisions.

Increasingly common are assisted opening knives which use springs to propel the blade once the user has moved it past a certain angle.

Increasingly, however, letterboxes have been located in relatively accessible sites and today there are thousands of letterboxes, many within easy walking distance of the road.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

English speakers treat them as the same sound, but they are different: the first is aspirated and the second is unaspirated ( plain ).

English speakers may be unaware of the differences among six allophones of the phoneme, namely unreleased as in cat, aspirated as in top, glottalized as in button, flapped as in American English water, nasalized flapped as in winter, and none of the above as in stop.

Native Hindi speakers pronounce / व / as in vrat (' व ् रत ', fast ) but in pakwan (' पकव ा न ', food dish ), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophone distinctions they are subconsciously making, though these are apparent to native English speakers.

Similarly, Hindi-Urdu speakers might unconsciously apply their native ' v-w ' allophony rules to English words, pronouncing war as var or advance as adwance, which can result in intelligibility problems with native English speakers.

Darker shades of blue indicate higher concentrations of native English speakers in the corresponding states.

Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States.

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

English voiceless stops are aspirated for most native speakers when they are word-initial or begin a stressed syllable, as in pen, ten, Ken.

" Pearl milk tea " is also used by English speakers and overseas Chinese and Taiwanese speakers, but it is usually called bubble tea.

* 珍珠奶茶 or 珍奶 for short ) (): " pearl milk tea ", or more commonly referred to as bubble tea by most English speakers and overseas Chinese speakers.

* 波霸奶茶 (): " bubble milk tea " and also commonly referred to as boba tea by English speakers and Asian Americans.

The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.