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Whats the difference between lonely and lonesome Take "lonesome" seriously -- it differs culturally, linguistically, "conceptually" from our depressive "lonely," owned as it is by the shrinks It's a feeling-perception, open-ended, resistant to individual, particular (dictionary) definitions
terminology - Is there any implication of drunkenness in high lonesome . . . Interesting question, I don’t have an answer but the following extract may be helpful: From: The High Lonesome Sound Defined: Examining The Music Of Bill Monroe, 1945-1948 The exact origination of the term is fuzzy at best and the source of many heated scholarly discussions In contrast to what others have previously said, the music does not sound "high and lonesome" because the singer is
What does “on’ry” mean in “I Wonder As I Wander”? There are not many references to the contraction, but a 1973 Waylon Jennings album is entitled Lonesome, On'ry, and Mean I believe that this usage, also, is pointing toward ornery So, are you and I ornery, ordinary, or something else? If we're ornery, has the meaning shifted between Niles's usage in 1933 and Waylon Jennings' usage forty years
Whats an adjective for alone but not lonely? For example, I'm an introvert I've been telling people that I'm a lonesome person because I prefer being alone Being alone does not make me feel lonely However, now that I learned that “lonesome” and “lonely” mean the same thing I'm wondering what adjective I'd use in place of “lonesome”
Would it be correct to say, Im walking by my own? The usual idiom is I'm walking on my own, which could be a small child pointing out that they were walking unaided for the first time (unlikely since this stage of development usually precedes an ability to construct sentences) But it could equally be said by an adult who normally walks in a group - today, I'm walking on my own However, perhaps the more popular idiom would be I am walking by
What does I swear - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Consider the following excerpt from the novel Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: “Well, it ain’t a holiday,” Call said “Work to do Me and Deets will go see if we can help them boys ” “That Newt
She [,] as well as I [,] (am is are?) tired of the work In my view 'as well as' does not change anything, interestingly it transforms the subject 'She' into plural as in: United States Congressional serial set - Volume 11731 - Page 40: He as well as I are very lonesome without her Notice the optional commas, in many instances 'as well as' is surrounded by them
Unanswered Questions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Is there any implication of drunkenness in "high lonesome" as used in the term "high lonesome sound"? Wiktionary has the following entry for "high lonesome sound": high lonesome sound (music) An expressively emotional, powerful and earthy style of musical expression associated mainly with
capitalization - Should the footnote be capitalized? - English Language . . . I have no sources for this, but it should either be capitalized, in which case the footnote is an incomplete sentence, because the subject (the word that Which refers to) is missing (In this case, the footnote number in the main sentence should come after the period: “ […] heterogeneous 1 ”, because the footnote is a sentence of its own, and having a full sentence within another full
A word phrase describing the sound of leaves? The horror of the situation was only heightened by the lonesome sound of the leaves scratching and scraping one another Or for a pleasant scenario: The leaves hummed and feathered as the women shuffled through the bright forest We tend to hear things very differently depending on how we feel in a given situation