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Where does blah meaning idle talk come from? Bla! Bla! What absurd ideas some people have 1848 - The Santa Fe Republican (Santa Fe, NM) 15 Oct 3 4 Baby talk A few other early examples use "bla" to describe baby-talk, setting up the possibility that it was first used to describe meaningless talk from an infant and grew from that to refer to idle or meaningless talk generally
Why does blue blazes specify the color blue, and what is the origin . . . Blue has nothing to do with color in this expression, and everything to do with alliteration, as @HotLicks pointed out Blue blazes is just a more emphatic version of the euphemism blazes for hell Blistering blue blazes is just more of the same Taboo and euphemism don't work by the same rules as regular language
punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I assumed you would use dots to show left-out unnecessary text in a quote, such as in The definition of used oil is "oil that is xyz" The deleted portion is non-useful text that would confus
What to use for rain ? Set on, set off, set in, set down I saw this in an English Level Test I don't remember the complete sentence It was like, bla bla bla (here there was something I don't remember) really rain Three dots is where you will use one of the verbs on the title I wrote What to use for 3 dots in this case? What do other verbs mean and how to use them in a sentence?
Etymology of black - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The following source traces the history of the term black The Old English blac was used, like blanc, to refer to a fair person, someone “devoid of colour” It was only in the 16th century that we saw the semantic change of blac to refer to something dark (night-colour): The word ‘Black’ can be traced back to its proto Indo-European origins through the word ‘blac’ which meant pale
I will or I shall - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Possible Duplicate: When should I use ldquo;shall rdquo; versus ldquo;will rdquo;? I have learnt in school we should use shall with I, you and we But I often see people saying I will, you wi