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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
- What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you?
Here "the top of the morning" again means "the beginning of the day"—although it is not clear from the context whether this is synonymous with "dawn" or some other marker of the earliest hour of the day
- 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
- Whats the origin of the idiom dont give it the time of day?
I Googled the phrase "time of day idiom" because I was particularly interested in the origin etymology of the "time of day" part I readily found the meaning (which I already knew), but was stymied as to its origin (which is what I wanted) Thus, I ask: what is the origin etymology of the idiom?
- 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
- etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . .
Holiday is a compound stemming from the words holy and day The word 'holiday' first surfaced in the 1500's replacing the earlier word 'haliday' which was recorded before 1200 in the Old English book Ancrene Riwle
- Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from?
The New Oxford American Dictionary has “Origin 1960’s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts ” Some online sources dispute the claim and attribute it to Great Jones Street
- grammaticality - When should I use a versus an in front of a word . . .
Both "a history" and "a historian" begin with an H sound If you slur it into 'istorian, then I would use "an" in spoken sentences (but as that's an incorrect pronunciation anyway you should definitely write it as "a historian "
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