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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 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
What does the phrase “it’s like Groundhog Day every day” mean, and . . . “It’s like Groundhog Day every day,” Jamison admitted of their epic losing streak What does this mean? Yes, I’ve read up on and know what Groundhog Day literally is: a holiday that celebrates a quaint folk tradition of determining the seasons
Origin of good night - English Language Usage Stack Exchange These are probably the most used two words in our day-to-day conversations We normally use superlative degrees all the time to emphasize something strongly That being the case why we don't use "better night" or "best night"? How did "good night" become such an integral part of our usage when we had other options?
meaning - What is the word for only knowing history from the day you . . . 0 The hyphenated word history-challenged (definition 2 below) or the phrase historically challenged (definition 1 2 below) should help here dictionary com: challenged adjective 1 a euphemism for disabled (usually preceded by an adverb): physically challenged
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
meaning - Whats the origin of flipping the bird? - English Language . . . Flipping seems pretty straightforward, so the real question here is, where did "the bird " come from? Here's one account: bird (3) "middle finger held up in a rude gesture," slang derived from 1860s expression give the big bird "to hiss someone like a goose," kept alive in vaudeville slang with sense of "to greet someone with boos, hisses, and catcalls" (1922), transferred 1960s to the "up