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- DictionaryLevi's/ˈliːvʌɪz/
plural
- 1. a brand of denim jeans. trademark
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May 18, 2016 · Throughout most of the US it's pronounced, as Silenus suggests, LEE-VIES (or LEE-VIZE, as a different spelling for the same sound), where VIES rhymes with "eyes". The term comes from the Levi Strauss company, which has always been pronounced LEE-VIE (rhyming with "eye"). (They once ran a chain of dry goods stores throughout the US, so the name ...
Nov 28, 2019 · 1. On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), as opposed to the 's genitive, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp. 320 & 321) that: In addition to its normal use with regular plurals such as boys', the 'zero genitive' is used to avoid ...
Sep 21, 2015 · The 80-20 or Pareto Rule capture some aspects of this. When used in the context of a project, it indicates that 80% of the project takes 20% of the work, while the hardest 20% of the project takes 80% of the work.
Jul 13, 2011 · A "game" is one unit of play according to set rules in which a winner can be decided. This is distinct from a "point" or "round", which is a possible substructure of a game in which one player may "win" or "lose" standing in a single game due to the scoring or winning of points or rounds, but has not won or lost the game itself.
