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- Comma or no comma before every day used in this sentence?
We do x for a or b every day Even if the sentence is long, it is grammatical My suggestion is: We find loans for people with bad credit or no borrowing history every day Edit: after thinking about this, I prefer: We find loans every day for people with bad credit or no borrowing history All day, every day sounds like you might be bored
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Whats the origin of the colloquial peachy, simply peachy, and . . .
I found a few connotations of how the slang "peachy" is used: Vocabulary com: #1: very good [non sarcastic]: If you're unhappy, it's usually best to be honest about it, rather than pretending everything's peachy
- What is the origin of the phrase gathering wool?
It is a very old saying, that dates back at least to the 16th century: Woolgathering: 1550s, "indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking," from the literal meaning "gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc " (see wool + gather)
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