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  2. Salutation - Wikipedia

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    A salutation is a greeting used in a letter or other communication. Salutations can be formal or informal. The most common form of salutation in an English letter includes the recipient's given name or title. For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close, known as valediction. Examples of non-written ...

  3. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.

  4. Etiquette in North America - Wikipedia

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    For example, a woman may accept an invitation extended to her entire family, even if the husband and children must send regrets (all in the same letter to the host). [ citation needed ] Invitations for mixed social events, such as parties, weddings, etc. , must be extended to the established significant others of any invitees, such as spouses ...

  5. Honorific - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Gujarati, for an uncle who is your mother's brother, the replacement honorific maama (long "a" then short "a") is used, and a male friend will often earn the suffix honorific of bhai. Suffix type: The traditional Hindi honorific is the suffix -ji. For example, M.K. Gandhi (the Mahatma) was often referred to as Gandhi-ji. (Hindi ...

  6. Greeting - Wikipedia

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    Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship (usually cordial) or social status (formal or informal) between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other.

  7. Letter (message) - Wikipedia

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    News from My Lad by James Campbell, 1828–1893 (Walker Art Gallery). A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1]

  8. Professional communication - Wikipedia

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    Professional communication draws on theories from fields as different as rhetoric and science, psychology and philosophy, sociology and linguistics.. Much of professional communication theory is a practical blend of traditional communication theory, technical writing, rhetorical theory, adult learning theory, and ethics.

  9. Diplomatic correspondence - Wikipedia

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    A note verbale (French pronunciation: [nɔt vɛʁ.bal]) is a formal form of note and is so named by originally representing a formal record of information delivered orally. It is less formal than a note (also called a letter of protest) but more formal than an aide-mémoire. A note verbale can also be referred to as a third person note (TPN).