When Stringer offered his customary greeting — "How are you, dear boy?" — Penzler took the opportunity to tell him about the lawsuit.
Many residents of the neighborhood said they did not know the families well and exchanged little beyond a fleeting nod or customary greeting.
His customary greeting, "You all right Dad?", which over the past year has shifted down a number of semitones, was in a higher register, one that I instantly recognised.
Through the open window, he and Ahmed gently pressed their foreheads and noses together, the customary greeting among men on Socotra.
Mexico City, meanwhile, lifted all of its flu restrictions and lowered its alert level, though federal health authorities still recommended that Mexicans continue to avoid the customary greeting of a handshake and kiss.
LORAIN, Ohio — Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is getting the customary greeting that the political tribe accords to apparent front-runners: He has taken rhetorical mortar shots from all sides.
Local legend back in my native Glasgow insists that the customary greeting on visiting an Edinburgh home is "Of course you will have had your tea hours ago!" Ian MacDonald Leicester Congratulations on your report on the game between Tottenham and Liverpool (Sport, 19 October) for managing not to mention the home team.
It is not for nothing that a customary greeting between people seeing each other for the first time in a given day is not "How are you?" but rather "Have you eaten yet?" They mean the same thing.
Say "Hafa Adai" (pronounced "hoffa day") which is a customary greeting very similar to "Hello, how are you?
But in Karrada, customary festival greetings were eschewed.
