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- History of have a good one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Slightly cooler than urging someone to 'have a good day' US, 1984 The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (1997) says: have a nice day Also, have a good day; have a good one A cordial goodbye For example, Thanks for the order, have a nice day, or See you next week — have a good day, or The car's ready for you — have a good one
- history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Similar constructions exist in other Germanic languages (cf Du van daag "from-day," Dan , Swed i dag "in day") Ger heute is from O H G hiutu, from P Gmc hiu tagu "on (this) day," with first element from PIE pronomial stem ki-, represented by L cis "on this side " The same applies to tomorrow and tonight, at least according to this
- Why we say an historical but a history [duplicate]
Here are the final words of the relevant article in ‘The Cambridge Guide to English Usage’: Nowadays the silent h persists only in a handful of French loanwords (heir, honest, honour, hour and their derivatives), and these need to be preceded by an
- Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix?
Note that to this day French histoire means both story and history – as does the corresponding term in German, Geschichte I imagine this is true in many other European languages I imagine this is true in many other European languages
- etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . .
The answers are above, but Barnhart's Dictionary of Etymology offers a bit more: Old English had a concurrent open compound halig daeg, found later in Middle English holy day, which became modern English holiday, meaning both a religious festival and a day of recreation
- 1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour?
E g in School we have 5-7 or 8 hours every day (Math, History, Biology, Chemistry, English etc ) The first hour starts at 8:00 A M But every Thursday we have an hour that stars at 7:10 A M In the table it will look like this (just random picture from the web): In Czech language we call it: nultá hodina which is something like zero-ish hour
- meaning - Whats the origin of flipping the bird? - English Language . . .
The earliest use in print I found of the exact phrase "flip the bird" or "flipped the bird" or "flipping the bird" is from a 1967 Broadside (Volume 6, Issues 17-26)
- What does the phrase “it’s like Groundhog Day every day” mean, and . . .
To provide a smidge more detail, the movie Groundhog Day is about a man reliving the same day over and over and over Every time he wakes up it's Groundhog Day again, and people always say the same things and do the same things over and over, and he's the only one who is aware of the infinite repetition and who is capable of doing things
- meaning - Why is a mule driver called a skinner? - English Language . . .
As Matt Эллен notes in his response to the poster's question, the first citation for mule-skinner is John H Beadle's Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism (1870)—a book whose publisher touts it on the title page as "being an exposé of the secret rites and ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints, with a full and authentic
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