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• a  based on custom rather than documentation
  an unwritten law
  rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence
• s  using speech rather than writing
• s  said or done without having been planned or written in advance

• The latest confrontation with that challenge came late last month in Israel when conductor Daniel Barenboim proposed to defy an unwritten ban on Wagner's works by performing .
• But when fighting Federer, it's a good idea to ditch the game's unwritten rules.
• Our unwritten speech codes require that those words be used only by gays and blacks, respectively (black gays can say both).

• oral
• ad-lib
• spontaneous

• written

News & Articles

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• Water Cooler: Pop Culture Fun
  Here are a few things in pop culture that caught our eye recently. \u25A0 Las Vegas 51s ballplayers whine to the Wall Street Journal about having to play at Cashman Field. New unwritten rule of baseball: You're not allowed to act like a spoiled major
  June 16, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Ian Kennedy's Headhunting Suspension Miles Away from Fitting the Crime
  Somewhere in the unwritten rules of baseball, there is a chapter on etiquette when it comes to a pitcher hitting a batter. Nowhere in that book, which regularly seems like it is being re-written on the fly, does it say anything about throwing a baseball at a player's head.  Yet for Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Ian Kennedy , that is exactly the tactic he took not once but twice on ...
  June 14, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Class 3A state baseball: Mounds View 2, Forest Lake 1
  Mounds View sophomore Alec Abercrombie has spent lots of time this season performing unwritten duties reserved for underclassmen. He has carried the bat bag, filled the water jug and taken plenty of good-natured ribbing.
  June 13, 2013 - Pioneer Press

Quotes

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• Nick Clegg in Telegraph.co.uk
  Mr Clegg said that he would also be supporting their stance, adding: "Convention is that political leaders, party leaders, do not talk about the Speaker. My view is that it is exactly that culture of unwritten conventions, unspoken rules and nods...
• Conan O Brien in Boston Herald
  O'Brien, in a written statement, said an "unwritten version of Late Night," though not desirable, is possible and no one has to be fired. "Of course, my show will not be as good. In fact, in moments it may very well be terrible."
• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  We don't need another attorney general who believes that the president enjoys an unwritten right to secretly ignore any law or abridge our constitutional freedoms simply by invoking national security. And we don't need another attorney general who... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/10/30/ap4278984.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHpzJn-WqBF7ORWhRsm5s4u9agzFg Oct 30, 2007 106407 139526 unyielding For despite all that divided us _ North and South, black and white _ he had an unyielding belief that we were, at heart, one nation, and one people," Obama said. "And because of Abraham Lincoln, and all who've carried on his work in the...