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- Why is it the day is young, not still early? What is the history of . . .
3 "The day is young" corresponds to "the hour is early" or better still simply "it is early" To me "the day is early" would be slightly unusual, but might suggest the early part of a longer period, such as a month or year
- 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
- history - Was what happened to the pronunciation of the word church . . .
The other day, I was reading a history of the Norman and Angevin kings, and came across the word kirk in an ecclesiastical context, which I had to look up, having no clue of its meaning The Online
- 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 - History of the phrase olden days - English Language . . .
According to Google's Books Ngram Viewer, the phrase was coined some time around 1800 and peaked around 1930: The oldest reference I could find for "olden days" is the 1805 Tobias: a poem : in three parts by Rev Luke Booker: And the oldest I found for "olden times" is Poems on Affairs of State from 1620 to this Present Year 1707, in a poem called "GIGANTOMAXIA, or a full and true Relation of
- What word means “the important events in ones life”?
A common word for these events is a milestone: An important event, as in a person's career, the history of a nation, or the advancement of knowledge in a field; a turning point
- history - Is there a word for something that was formerly a social norm . . .
I've been reading a lot of various classic literature, and at times there is the sort of casual misogyny or racism that was commonplace and (within certain cultures) the social norm at that time S
- Is it the second half or second part of the century?
European History of the second half of the 19th century is European History that belongs between 1850 and 1899 European History from the second half of the 19th century is European History starting from 1850 (and moving all the way up until the present day)
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