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etymology - Does neath have any standalone meaning? - English . . . Neath or 'neath does have a standalone meaning, but as you will see here, it simply means beneath It appears in poetry usually, I suspect, when beneath or underneath would add too many syllables to the line
Difference between under, underneath, below and beneath In terms of these two senses, is there any subtle difference between these four prepositions? Or one is most formal informal than the rest And what about their spelling pattern: If under is to under neath, but why below is to be neath, rather than below neath?
Confusion about a stanza from Rudyard Kipling And Love to all men 'neath the sun! And love everyone on earth As Alex pointed out, "'neath the sun" is borrowed from Ecclesiastes It's a motif that appears many times throughout the book A close reading shows that the phrase refers to the mundane, prosaic, aspects of life that people tend to view as unimportant
gerunds - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Is there a single-word noun for an overwhelming feeling that uses overwhelm as its root? My first thought was to make a gerund, that is, overwhelming Although overwhelming is normally used as an
A word for people who work under a manager Where I used to work, we called the people who reported to a manager his her reports This word does not have any of the negative connotations words like subordinates or underlings carry Oxford Dictionaries Online lists this as the meaning of the word and also gives an example Report noun An employee who reports to another employee 'And, I have been a better, more consistent mentor teacher
Compound preposition - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Words like be+neath and with+in should comfortably fit into this definition After all the word preposition per-se is a compound of pre+position And by the way what about compound adverbs such as whenever, hereafter, or compound pronouns like whoever, whatever and so on?
single word requests - How to describe this metallic sound? - English . . . Try to get across the ethereal nature of the sound so as to evoke the almost indescribable yet quite precise idea you want to convey “So attuned is Hikaru to the deadly arts that he can foresee his opponent’s every move, so fluent in the unspoken and unwritten language of death is the veteran warrior that to him, her every breath speaks volumes, the crunch of the gravel ‘neath her feet
What is the origin and scope of usage of the phrase Voodoo That You Do . . . You're right that Cole Porter wrote the song in 1929, but it obviously didn't catch on for a long time The earliest instance of that voodoo that you do in Google Books is 1954, and it doesn't turn up again for another 10 years Realistically though, I'd say it's known to many, but actually used by very few
Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention? Here's the first part of the chorus: You'll hear me call-ing YOO-HOO, 'Neath your win-dow some sweet day You'll hear me call-ing YOO-HOO, And you'll know I'm home to stay, So with that context, yoo-hoo as an exclamation could have appeared in the 19th century and been current as a way to get attention in the 1910s