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History of have a good one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Slightly cooler than urging someone to 'have a good day' US, 1984 The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (1997) says: have a nice day Also, have a good day; have a good one A cordial goodbye For example, Thanks for the order, have a nice day, or See you next week — have a good day, or The car's ready for you — have a good one
history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . . Similar constructions exist in other Germanic languages (cf Du van daag "from-day," Dan , Swed i dag "in day") Ger heute is from O H G hiutu, from P Gmc hiu tagu "on (this) day," with first element from PIE pronomial stem ki-, represented by L cis "on this side " The same applies to tomorrow and tonight, at least according to this
Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix? Note that to this day French histoire means both story and history – as does the corresponding term in German, Geschichte I imagine this is true in many other European languages I imagine this is true in many other European languages
etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . . The answers are above, but Barnhart's Dictionary of Etymology offers a bit more: Old English had a concurrent open compound halig daeg, found later in Middle English holy day, which became modern English holiday, meaning both a religious festival and a day of recreation
1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour? E g in School we have 5-7 or 8 hours every day (Math, History, Biology, Chemistry, English etc ) The first hour starts at 8:00 A M But every Thursday we have an hour that stars at 7:10 A M In the table it will look like this (just random picture from the web): In Czech language we call it: nultá hodina which is something like zero-ish hour
How did Americans greet each other before Hi? Disclaimer: no evidence that these words were used in America What follows is more like an interesting note on the history of greetings in English: The book Speech acts in the history of English dedicates an entire chapter to greetings in English language history
history - What is the origin of the phrase, Put two and two together . . . the other day and, shortly after saying, wondered about its origin My understanding is that it means to "connect the dots" or to figure the answer to a question, but I'm uncertain why "put two and two together" became a synonym
What is the origin of the phrase gathering wool? It is a very old saying, that dates back at least to the 16th century: Woolgathering: 1550s, "indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking," from the literal meaning "gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc " (see wool + gather)