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nouns - Why is the word pepper used for both capsicum (e. g. bell . . . The Online Etymology Dictionary states that Latin piper is the source of the English word (as well as “German Pfeffer, Italian pepe, French poivre, Old Church Slavonic pipru, Lithuanian pipiras, Old Irish piobhar, Welsh pybyr, etc ”) It's ultimately from Sanskrit and originally referred to the Old World's Piper genus The New World's Capsicum genus came to be called “pepper” in the
A figure of speech to illustrate the irreversibility of an action Personally I like "You can't unring that bell" as deadrat mentioned above The phrase refers to the fact that you can't un-hear a bell that has been rung There's a nice essay about its history here: Unring the Bell (impossibility of taking back a statement or action)
Origin of the phrase under your belt? - English Language Usage . . . The literal meaning of having something under your belt is having it in your stomach, but it’s probably more frequently used figuratively, to mean having acquired something, often intellectual For example, the OED has these two supporting citations, from the English novelists P G Wodehouse (1954) and John Wain (1962): Just as you have got Hamlet and Macbeth under your belt He wanted me to
The door was opened vs The door was open [duplicate] The first sounds incomplete Ideally, it would be followed by a reference to the person who opened the door Eg: The door was opened by Peter This is the passive voice of the following sentence: "Peter opened the door " (this is active voice) The second is a standalone sentence It just means the door was open, and not closed Eg: It looked like I'd rung the bell unnecessarily The door was
word choice - Congratulation vs. congratulations - English Language . . . Congratulations is simply the plural form of congratulation See these examples from the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Let me offer you my congratulations for being elected Please send her my congratulations I sent her a letter of congratulations The plural form illustrated by the examples above is much more used than the singular form: 2523 matches for congratulations vs 56 matches for
etymology - Origin of using clocked to mean noticed - English . . . The second is based on the origins of 'clock', (OED ~ "Middle English clok (ke , clocke , was either < Middle Dutch clocke (modern Dutch klok ‘bell, clock’), or < Old Northern French cloke , cloque = Central French cloche ‘bell’"), and an alternative use for bell clock that was to have it tied around the necks of cattle to make them