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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
- Why we say an historical but a history [duplicate]
Closed 13 years ago Possible Duplicate: When should I use “a” versus “an” in front of a word beginning with the letter h? Why do we say an historical but a history? This question was originally posed by @shanselman on Twitter
- history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today" When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two
- Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix?
That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion of herstory during the 1970s, says Dictionary com’s Jane Solomon, “to point out the fact that history has mostly come from a male perspective ” The “his” in history has nothing, linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person
- 1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour?
The case you gave is interesting, where it is an exception to the schedule for one day to have an additional hour before the hour labeled 'first' To call it 'zeroth' hour would be strange (perfectly recognizable and used by any math geek, but there it is) But then what is the hour that comes before that?
- history - What is the origin of the phrase, Put two and two together . . .
the other day and, shortly after saying, wondered about its origin My understanding is that it means to "connect the dots" or to figure the answer to a question, but I'm uncertain why "put two and two together" became a synonym
- 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
- Correct use of circa - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It has always been my understanding that circa is properly used only when exact dates are unknown or disputed (I will concede to my betters about the use of circa with measures Presumably, the same rule about intentional vagueness applies ) Using circa with an exact, verified set of dates is wrong Recently, I edited a client’s work to correct “the poet John Keats lived c 1795–1821”
- 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) (Dictionary com) Earlest known usages: The earliest known use of the phrase in the sense to indulge in purposeless thinking is in The
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