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Origin of the word fou - English Language Usage Stack Exchange So, after all that, you (the OP) were inspired to ask this question by reading the Wiktionary entry? In the end then the question isn't really what 'fou' means in English, but how did the French word 'fou' (crazy) come from Latin 'follis' ('bellows', 'bag') Prety straightforward metaphor as others mentioned, a 'windbag' talks a lot, which may be drift into crazy Also, it's a fairly common
What does the phrase Fee-fi-fo-fum actually mean? Fee-fi-fo-fum; I smell the blood of an Englishman Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk (1890) I've read about the origin of 'Fee
Distinction: What can I do you for? vs. What can I do for you? It's normally a joke It's 'funny' because "What can I do you for?" is actually a question that would never be asked, except rhetorically Do you, as in "I'm gonna do you in" is what a thug would say before he perpetrated violent acts against you It could also be used by a police man, for example "Do him for possession", so do him is slang for arrest him There is also, the more pertinent
pronouns - When is it correct to use yourself and myself (versus . . . Using "yourself" and "ourselves" in these contexts is incorrect "Yourself," "ourselves," and "myself" are reflexive pronouns, correctly used when the subject actor of the sentence and the object recipient are the same person or group "I see myself" is correct because I am doing the seeing and am seeing myself In your latter example, the subject is the implicit "you" and the object is
Need be vs. Needs to be - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I can hardly say the word need be used, since that's 395 written instances without it But Google Books claims to have 1,140 instances pointing out that the word needs to be used Without to, it seems rather dated to me
may you or can you? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Please include the research you've done, or consider if your question suits our English Language Learners site better Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
verbs - Did you find versus have you found - English Language . . . Did you find is the simple past and indicates that you are no longer looking for it Have you found is the present perfect and indicates a link with the present, specifically, that you could still be looking for it
grammar - Which one is correct? the last or last - English Language . . . "last Saturday" means the previous Saturday, the one before we are talking "the last Saturday" means the final Saturday in a period of time So "The last Saturday in November" is perfectly correct So is "I haven't read a book since last Saturday"; but also "I haven't read a book since the last Saturday of November" "the last Saturday" without a qualification would mean the final Saturday of