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What exactly is Imma? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In 2010, linguist Neal Whitman wrote it's the Prime Time for "Imma" commenting on its use in pop lyrics In fact, this Imma (also spelled I'ma, I'mma, Ima, and I'm a) is not the contraction I'm followed by a, but a contraction of I'm gonna — which, of course, is a contraction of I'm going to, which is itself a contraction of I am going to The progression from I'm gonna to Imma involves two
Does the “a” of “Ima” extend to other pronouns? The phrase I'ma (which is also written Imma, I'mma, Ima, and I'm a), is a feature of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) that is used to mark the immediate future *
american english - Why does to dip mean to leave? - English . . . Have you ever heard the (older) expressions, dip out for a bit, or dip in for a quick one? The idea being conveyed is the diversion is short, finite, noncommital, as in a short detour BTW, in modern slang usage, dip isn't just leave, but more strongly like skeedaddle, getting out of here
Why do people say to be honest? For quite some time, I've been hearing the phrase "to be honest" almost every day I've heard friends say it, characters on TV shows, and even an NPR reporter said it in an interview Example: "
Origin of the phrase Now were cooking with The original is "Now You're Cooking With Gas", supposedly part of an ad campaign from the era when gas stoves first started replacing wood stoves for cooking in the home The Wikitionary entry cooking with gas offers some insight, but I couldn't locate a specific ad campaign, or any other corroborating materials This article suggests that this would have been early in the 1900s
Where does the phrase hold down the fort come from? I agree the original should be 'hold the fort' and 'hold down…' looks like an aberration Is it too much to speculate that 'hold down…' could have come from a land-lubbers variation on something like 'make all secure and batten down the hatches!" where the security is against the weather, not a human enemy?
etymology - Why does going to kip mean going to sleep? - English . . . I cannot speak for Romani, but kippe (as a noun) is beyond vanishingly rare in Danish It’s a marginally common verb, meaning ‘tilt’ or ‘lop’ (or ‘dip’ as in ‘dipping the flag’), but according to the dictionary, the noun and the verb are unrelated The noun is allegedly the same as kipe ‘basket for carrying grain’ Supposedly, the shift from ‘basket’ to ‘hovel
When did a buck start being used to mean any unit of 100? (E. g. a . . . Here is some data-driven analysis from Google Ngrams At this link you'll find a graph showing the usage, as found in Google Books, of the following: a buck twenty a buck thirty a buck forty a buck fifty a buck sixty a buck seventy a buck eighty a buck ninety The first monetary usage from this corpus was from 1922: The Emerald of Sigma Pi - Volume 8, Issue 4 - Page 248 1922 - Read
What is the history and geographic area of the word finna? In St Louis, I learned of the word, " finna " I know it is slang contraction for "fixing to " By asking dozens of people, I've learned that it is used by people of many different races and cultural backgrounds I've also learned that many who use this word have been using it all their lives (for some, that means at least 50 years) What I want to know is: When did " finna " first start being
etymology - Baby needs a new pair of shoes! - English Language . . . Early instances of the phrase cited in a historical slang dictionary J E Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1993) has this entry for "baby needs a pair of shoes": baby needs a pair of shoes {sugg that one has expenses to meet} (a traditional exclamation of crapshooters) Earliest cited instances:] 1918 Witwer [From] Baseball [to Boches] 293: Joe, the air is full