- History of have a good one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The term "have a good day" was the phrase of the times Everyone used it, I had to hear it so many times during the course of the day that I nearly went mad with the boredom of the phrase So, after a while I started to return "Have a good day" with "Have A Good One" meaning have a good whatever got you off
- Why is it the day is young, not still early? What is the history of . . .
3 "The day is young" corresponds to "the hour is early" or better still simply "it is early" To me "the day is early" would be slightly unusual, but might suggest the early part of a longer period, such as a month or year
- Comma or no comma before every day used in this sentence?
In the following sentence, would it be correct to use a comma to before every day? We find loans for people with bad credit or no history of borrowing, every day
- history - Is there a word for something that was formerly a social norm . . .
I've been reading a lot of various classic literature, and at times there is the sort of casual misogyny or racism that was commonplace and (within certain cultures) the social norm at that time S
- history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today" When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two
- Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix?
The words story and history share much of their lineage, and in previous eras, the overlap between them was much messier than it is today “That working out of distinction,” says Durkin, “has taken centuries and centuries ”
- etymology - History of the phrase olden days - English Language . . .
According to Google's Books Ngram Viewer, the phrase was coined some time around 1800 and peaked around 1930: The oldest reference I could find for "olden days" is the 1805 Tobias: a poem : in three parts by Rev Luke Booker: And the oldest I found for "olden times" is Poems on Affairs of State from 1620 to this Present Year 1707, in a poem called "GIGANTOMAXIA, or a full and true Relation of
- How did English retain its non-Christian names of the week?
Each day of the week is named for the planet ruling its first hour The rest is pure arithmetic Twenty-four hours ruled by seven planets leaves a remainder of three, so beginning with the day of the Sun, the next day is three planets to the right in the list, the Moon's day, and so on
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