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What does xxi mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The " XXI " in capitals mean 21 in Roman numerals, but I don't think the lower-case letters " xxi " here also refer to 21 It seems that the sentence is well understood if the "xxi" is removed What does the very word mean here? Thank you
Coffee: American English pronunciation The preface to LPD (3rd ed , p xxi) says: There is considerable variability in GenAm vowels in the open back area LPD follows tradition in continuing to distinguish the vowel of lot lɑːt from that of thought θɔːt (Note, though, that books by American scholars generally do not use length marks )
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The word pussy is often used to mean "coward" This guy is a pussy and I am wondering why How are woman's genitals related to being a "coward"?
What does turn of the century mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . . I suspect it was a term coined sometime during the 20th century to mean the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries As someone born mid-twentieth, it seems always to have been around However now we are well into the twenty-first century an element of confusion has arisen Often the meaning can be picked up from context e g "my son was born around the turn of the century" would be unlikely to
etymology - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could . . . Details: Woodchuck is used as an alternative name for groundhogs The etymology of woodchuck suggests that the word is not related with "wood" and "chucking" and I think the tongue twister touches on this in a humorous way because woodchucks cannot chuck wood actually (Can they?) From Etymonline: woodchuck (n ) 1670s, alteration (influenced by wood (n )) of Cree (Algonquian) otchek or Ojibwa
the usage and origin of the expression I bags that Adding to the previous answer:, In AmE, you'd probably shout dibs In BrE, at least down here in the South, bagsy would do, though it might just be bags To put this in the verbal form, you can bags or bagsy something, but, as you can see from the OED examples, the spelling is hard to pin down: 1946 B MARSHALL George Brown's Schooldays xxi 89 ‘What about you doing the gassing instead of me