Letter of Deletion. A letter of deletion is sent to debt collection agencies or credit bureaus to request that incorrect or misleading information be removed from your credit report. This could include false information, such as a debt that never existed, or outdated information such as a debt that has now been paid.
Chopsticks It's commonly known that the Chinese invented chopsticks (or kuaizi in Chinese) as a set of instruments to be used when eating but the reason behind that is not commonly known. Actually, the Chinese were taught to use chopsticks long before spoons and forks were invented in Europe (the knife is older, not as an instrument for dining but as weapon). Chopsticks were strongly advocated by the great Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479BC).
Origin of the word. The English word chopstick seems to come from Chinese Pidgin English, a pidgin where chop chop meant quickly. The Mandarin Chinese word for chopsticks is kuÃ izi (ç­·å­). It is a word made of different parts; it has the phonetic part of å¿«, which means quick, and a semantic part, ç«¹, meaning bamboo. In Chinese, the old word for chopsticks, and also in some varieties of modern Chinese such as Hokkien, was zhÃ¹ (MC: dÌªjwo-) (ç®¸ Pinyin:zhÃ¹, Minnan: tÄ«).