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- 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
- etymology - Whats the origin of all the livelong day? - English . . .
Ngram, all the livelong day can be found from the late 18th century 1786 Burns Twa Dogs 295 Or lee-lang nights, wi crabbit leuks, Pore owre the devil's pictur'd beuks 1787 F Burney Diary June, This was the last day of freedom for the whole livelong summer 1806 J Grahame Birds Scot 77 The live long summer day She at the house end sits
- 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
- Whats the origin of the idiom dont give it the time of day?
I Googled the phrase "time of day idiom" because I was particularly interested in the origin etymology of the "time of day" part I readily found the meaning (which I already knew), but was stymied as to its origin (which is what I wanted) Thus, I ask: what is the origin etymology of the idiom?
- Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix?
That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion of herstory during the 1970s, says Dictionary com’s Jane Solomon, “to point out the fact that history has mostly come from a male perspective ” The “his” in history has nothing, linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person
- etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . .
Holiday is a compound stemming from the words holy and day The word 'holiday' first surfaced in the 1500's replacing the earlier word 'haliday' which was recorded before 1200 in the Old English book Ancrene Riwle
- Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from?
The New Oxford American Dictionary has “Origin 1960’s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts ” Some online sources dispute the claim and attribute it to Great Jones Street
- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In olden times, when the time expression "at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time unlike daytime It represents the dark hours and the late time of the day
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