"Chitter-chatter should be confined to close friends whom one sees or writes more than once a year, " said Judith Martin, better known as Miss Manners.
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The call is a high-pitched chitter and sharp " chi-tit " like Indian silverbill, and the male s song is a musical goldfinch-like melody with twitters and trills.
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"By carrying the mobile phones, our officers can go anywhere without being noticed by people around them because they will no longer have to handle chunky facilities or deal with the devices'noisy chitter-chatter ."
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Cassin's sparrows also give a variety of chitter calls and chip notes that have been assigned various roles by different authors, including pair bond maintenance, communication with fledglings, alarm calls, territory defense, etc . Unusual conditions may induce this species to sing at unusual times of year.
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"As with the rest of the trilogy, there are action scenes aplenty and I take the opportunity to introduce some new characters : Artor the Plough God steps into the world; Urbeth, the great icebear of the north; and the strange Chitter Chatters that Ho'Demi finds lost down a mine.
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The critic St John Ervine wrote of the piece, " When Mr Coward has learned that tea-table chitter-chatter had better remain the prerogative of women he will write more interesting plays than he now seems likely to write . " The play was thought to be lost until a typescript was found in 2007 in the archive of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, the official censor of stage plays in the UK until 1968.