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What ever happened to fink? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The noun form fink is way at the bottom, followed closely by stinker, and surprisingly, motherfucker If we focus our attention on the last three terms, and add the verb "is", i e is a fink, Google Ngram should avoid those instances where the author's name, A Fink, is cited The expression “is a stinker” seems to have peaked in the 1950s
Why use need not instead of do not need to? The header of psyco sourceforge net states: High-level languages need not be slower than low-level ones Why use need not instead of do not
Is or was written by? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @peterG such use of the historical present goes back to classical Latin rhetoric (translatio temporum being the rhetorical technique of sparing use to foreground certain events), is found in Shakespeare ("He took me by the wrist and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm;") and in all is of long standing
Is Is it a girl or a boy? really calling the infant an it? @BrianJ Fink: the title is not the question, just as the headline of a newspaper article is not the article If you only read the title, you cannot possibly know enough to answer (However, I did just rewrite the title, because I'm tired of people who cannot read ) –
What happened to the “‑est” and “‑eth” verb suffixes in English? To expand on this, morphological leveling isn't a random phenomenon It can be difficult to track the precise reasons for a specific change, but we can conjecture that it might be similar to issues like verb agreement in Modern English ("they you is")
What you call someone who leaks information from a team? Depends on your point of view: A source, a leak, a snitch, a rat, a whistle-blower, a mole, a canary, a fink, an informant, a stool pigeon, and several more – Hot Licks Commented Jun 5, 2015 at 12:02
What is the etymology of golden boy? Scanning references from that time period, I found numerous mentions of Golden Boy, a commercially successful 1937 play by Clifford Odet (inspiration for the Coens' Barton Fink) This is also the earliest reference given by the OED as quoted by @Cerberus in his answer to the linked queston, On being golden