- 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
- What are the origins of the phrase field day as used to refer to . . .
In my opinion, it is considered a field day because the task at hand is uncomplicated and straightforward, requiring a minimal amount of skill in order to succeed In combining those two points, field day as it refers to the cleaning of the barracks, is a chance for a unit to show that it is able to accomplish simple tasks efficiently
- 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
- 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
- What word means “the important events in ones life”?
A common word for these events is a milestone: An important event, as in a person's career, the history of a nation, or the advancement of knowledge in a field; a turning point
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