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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
- Is there a word for the day after overmorrow and the day before . . .
I know overmorrow (the day after tomorrow) and ereyesterday (the day before yesterday) themselves are obsolete alike I would like to know whether English has ever had words for one day farther than that, I mean "the day after overmorrow" and "the day before ereyesterday"
- 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
- Whats the origin of the colloquial peachy, simply peachy, and . . .
Peachy meaning very good, excellent, is derived from the sense of peach used metaphorically to refer to a pretty young woman Such usage dates back to the 16th century 1- a pretty young woman (see Williams for fig uses of peach in 16C–17C) 1754 [UK] E Turner letter 16 Aug in Dickins Stanton 18C Correspondence (1910) 238: I had almost forgot that orange Peach, your Niece Early usage
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is there a word or expression for people who have lived at the same time, even if other was only during one day? I mean people who have had at least a theoretical chance of meeting and interacting
- 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
- Etymology of the phrase peachy keen
Next day, before the station had time to fire him, the place was snowed under with fan mail By last week, the scattyboo platter session was being broadcast over five Southern California stations ("the net-to-net coastwork of the Oh-So-Peachy-Keen Broadcasting Company") Both ABC and Mutual were dickering for national network rights
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