"envelope" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as both a noun and a verb. Example: He handed her an envelope containing a letter.
"Quite frankly, being Ukip, we had absolutely nothing like [the information in the envelope] at all," said Rose. "We just scatter-gunned it and did the best we could.
Debrett's etiquette guide has for centuries provided the rules for handling ticklesome social situations, such as not knowing how to address an envelope to the widow of an earl ("The Dowager Countess of Wherever" should do it, FYI).
Yesterday it was reported that an envelope containing white powder had been sent to Ilda Boccassini, the chief prosecutor in the corruption trial.
"On the 2 December 2010, here in Zurich, when we decided on the two World Cups in one session, if two other countries had emerged from the envelope we would not have these problems today," he said.
The producers of The Jinx, Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling, said on Monday they handed over the envelope and the bathroom recording "months ago".
Tired of the solitary life that won him fame and fortune as a novelist, Faulks has used this week's Spectator to seek a nine-to-five gig that'll provide him with "colleagues, gossip, promotions, lunches and a PAYE packet in a grey-windowed envelope".
Then he puts the phone banks and envelope-stuffing machinery to work.
Around the same time, he did a back-of-the-envelope calculation to get a sense of CAPTCHA's popularity, and realised that about 200m squiggly words were being recognised and typed into computers every day by internet users around the world.
The arrival of one of these miracle-workers in a constituency risks giving harried candidates and disengaged activists the perfect opportunity to dump boring grunt work like canvassing and envelope-stuffing on the new recruit.
Back-of-the-envelope calculations put the sum needed at between €30 billion and €50 billion.
Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that this could easily double the capital shortfall if sluggish economies keep adding to the heap of bad loans and the slump in banks' earnings.One unanswered question is how these capital holes will be filled.
