Rest in peace (acronym R.I.P.) in the second person singular, or “Requiescite in pace” in the second person plural. In the common phrase "Requiescat in pace" the "-at" ending is appropriate because the verb is a third-person singular present active subjunctive used in a hortative sense: "May he/she rest in peace." The phrase was first found on tombstones some time before the fifth century. It became ubiquitous on the tombs of Christians in the 18th century, and for High Church Anglicans, Methodists, as well as Roman Catholics in particular, it was a prayerful request that their soul should find peace in the afterlife.
Truce term Truce term A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants. Common examples in English speaking cultures are "barley", "fainites", "crosses", "kings" and "exe(s)"in the United Kingdom, "pegs" and "nibs" in New Zealand and variants of "barley" in Australia. In the United States, terms based on "time-out" have, from the 1950s onwards, largely supplanted earlier common terms based on "kings" and "exe(s)". Since the late 1980s "time-out" has been recorded in