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Whats the difference between “bucket” and “pail”? Pail is completely synonymous with bucket, except in phrases such as diner pail, slop pail, oyster pail, kick the bucket, bucket brigade, bucket seat, bucket hat, etc
What is the origin of the phrase beyond the pale? Pale in this idiom comes from Latin pālus 'stake'; it means a fencepost, and by ordinary extension it also means the fence itselt, and the area it contains or delimits So beyond the pale just means "outside the boundaries" Normally, of course, the "boundaries" are metaphors for human activities, rather than referring to a physically bounded location
Why is a jug of draft beer called a growler? Sense 4 ["A pail or other container used for carrying beer, especially a half-gallon or gallon glass jug with a gasket or screw cap" derives from] the sound made by carbon dioxide escaping from under the lids of metal pails in which beer was carried in the past
word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The terms dinner pail, dinner bucket, lunch box, lunch pail, and lunch bucket all have some currency, per ngrams,, but dinner box much less so Dinner pail is found in euphemism for death "To hand in one's dinner pail", and in the 1900 campaign slogan of William McKinley, "Four more years of the full dinner pail"
If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out? From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump' While there is this, I
negation - Answering the question: Do you mind if. . . ? - English . . . "Do you mind " is a polite way of asking "Can you " For this reason, it's usually acceptable to respond to the semantic intent of the question by answering "Yes (I can do that)", rather than responding to the grammatical form with "No (I don't mind)" Native speakers sometimes get confused by this, too
Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings? There's actually quite a bit of variation in different regions of the US As I said, it's quite common to hear Dinner as the noontime meal in many areas of the American South I've noticed that there's even a split in Texas where some regions use Lunch Dinner and others use Dinner Supper These differences have tended to mix up and get confused as people from different regions have mixed, and