Starry-eyed initiates arrive in New York expecting to find writers and editors who spend their hours in elevated literary conversation, only to discover, as the eponymous narrator of David Leavitt's new novel does, that the most common parlance is "I've heard......
The year 2005 also saw a leap in the Taliban's use of homemade bombs — improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s, in military parlance — most often buried in dirt roads.
In a study of its 33 nursing teams, the company found that patients working with its happiest (or in Humana parlance "most engaged") nurses have 40% less paid in claims, 70% fewer visits to the ER, and 91% fewer visits to urgent care clinics.
When I talk to Barclays' directors and also to regulators about how much that bank allocated to pay what it calls incentives - or bonuses, in most people's parlance - they say that the value of the incentive pool fell 18% to £2.5bn.
Many English words and phrases, however, have worked their way into local parlance, and most Pakistanis with even a modest education have some grasp of the language.
It's this quality that makes him "relatable," in the studio parlance, since most of us are at best effortful amateurs in whatever we do.
Telephone operators ("bear counselors," in company parlance, who most assuredly do not work in India) offer advice about ways to personalize a gift and reassure callers that their selections will arrive on time.
Italian marriage rules require a woman from Algeria or Egypt, say, to obtain her embassy's consent, which is likely to be refused unless the would-be husband converts (or "reverts", in Islamic parlance).In most parts of Europe migration has made sharia a pressing issue.
Among the town's most popular pieces of parlance is "I don't disagree".
(Around the same time, the word "punctual" entered common parlance, perhaps because most clocks and watches were finally being rigged with not just an hour hand but also a minute hand).
