- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 . . .
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)
|