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- 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
- 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
- history - Was what happened to the pronunciation of the word church . . .
The other day, I was reading a history of the Norman and Angevin kings, and came across the word kirk in an ecclesiastical context, which I had to look up, having no clue of its meaning The Online
- 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
- 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
- Is it the second half or second part of the century?
European History of the second half of the 19th century is European History that belongs between 1850 and 1899 European History from the second half of the 19th century is European History starting from 1850 (and moving all the way up until the present day)
- etymology - Whats the origin of all the livelong day? - English . . .
The expression "all the livelong day" can be found as early as 1579, when it appeared in Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives, in the chapter on the "Life of Romulus" (you can find this in any Early English Books Online database): These poore maydes toyled at it all the liue longe daye
- 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
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