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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 - What is the origin of New Year? - English Language . . . Here is a brief excerpt about the origin of "New Year" from history com: As part of his reform, Caesar instituted January 1 as the first day of the year, partly to honor the month's namesake: Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces allowed him to look back into the past and forward into the future
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
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 of history and why the hi- prefix? This question is a tad backwards, because looking at the etymology, it's rather clear that it's not a prefix that was added to form "history", but rather a part of the word was lost to form "story" Why that happened, however, is not obvious, so it's still a fair question to ask
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Emperor Constantine established the seven-day week in the Roman calendar in 321 and designated Sunday and Monday as the first two days of the week The other weekday names in English are derived from Anglo-Saxon names for gods in Teutonic mythology Tuesday comes from Tiu, or Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for Tyr, the Norse god of war