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Seamless branching, a DVD technology; Seamless garment, an abortion-related phrase referencing Jesus' robe; Seamless Garment Network, an organization founded in 1987 that opposes abortion, capital punishment, assisted suicide, and euthanasia; Seamless robe of Jesus, the robe said to have been worn by Jesus during (or shortly before) his crucifixion
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The s-form [1] is the English language phenomenon of suffixing -'s or -s to business names where there is not one present in writing, predominantly in colloquial speech. [2] This is particularly common with the names of supermarkets. For example Tesco could be converted to Tesco's in speech, Safeway to Safeways, Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart's, etc.
820 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures; 821 English poetry; 822 English drama; 823 English fiction; 824 English essays; 825 English speeches; 826 English letters; 827 English humor and satire; 828 English miscellaneous writings; 829 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literature; 830 German and related literatures. 830 German literature ...
Class P: Language and Literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system. This page outlines the subclasses of Class P. It contains 19 sub-classifications, 12 of which are dedicated to language families and geographic groups of languages, and 10 sub-classifications of literature (4 subclasses contain both languages and literatures).
Additionally, any given country or region teaching English studies will often emphasize its own local or national English-language literature. English composition, involving both the analysis of the structures of works of literature as well as the application of these structures in one's own writing. English language arts, which is the study of ...
Executive summaries are important as a communication tool in both academia and business. For example, members of Texas A&M University's Department of Agricultural Economics observe that "An executive summary is an initial interaction between the writers of the report and their target readers: decision makers, potential customers, and/or peers ...
Corporate speak is associated with managers of large corporations, business management consultants, and occasionally government. Reference to such jargon is typically derogatory, implying the use of long, complicated, or obscure words; abbreviations; euphemisms; and acronyms.