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Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention? The Oxford English Dictionary dates yoo-hoo to 1924, as noted by the American Dialect Society, and compares it to yo-ho, originally a nautical phrase also sometimes used in yo-heave-ho Their first documented use of yo-ho is from 1769 in William Falconer's An universal dictionary of the marine: Hola-ho, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe Yo-ho derives from two interjections Yo: an exclamation of
etymology - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could . . . Details: Woodchuck is used as an alternative name for groundhogs The etymology of woodchuck suggests that the word is not related with "wood" and "chucking" and I think the tongue twister touches on this in a humorous way because woodchucks cannot chuck wood actually (Can they?) From Etymonline: woodchuck (n ) 1670s, alteration (influenced by wood (n )) of Cree (Algonquian) otchek or Ojibwa
Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US? English writing often uses slashes to form two-letter abbreviations, plus the one-letter w – some examples, roughly in order of frequency: I O – “input output” w – “with” c o – “care of” A C – “air conditioning” w o – “without” R C – “remote control” b c – “because” Like most abbreviations, these are less common in formal writing, although some of
Coquette vs. flirt - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the difference between coquette and flirt? They seem to mean the exact same thing; is it only their historical or etymological baggage that determines different usage?
euphemisms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange “Bullshit” is often a slang verb used when writing essays to mean that you are writing things without much deep thought or care I'm looking for a more formal definition of the word “Bullshit” I
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Literally (or at least in ancient Greece) a lyric poem was actually a song accompanied by the lyre, going back to poets like Sappho and Alkaios from the island of Lesbos in the 7th century BCE These poems were often but far from always addressed to a god, person or even personified inanimate object So Sappho, in what is (tragically) the only of her lyric poems to survive complete, begs the