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- history - Change from to-day to today - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today" When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it contained two
- History of have a good one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The term "have a good day" was the phrase of the times Everyone used it, I had to hear it so many times during the course of the day that I nearly went mad with the boredom of the phrase So, after a while I started to return "Have a good day" with "Have A Good One" meaning have a good whatever got you off
- What are the origins of the phrase field day as used to refer to . . .
In my opinion, it is considered a field day because the task at hand is uncomplicated and straightforward, requiring a minimal amount of skill in order to succeed In combining those two points, field day as it refers to the cleaning of the barracks, is a chance for a unit to show that it is able to accomplish simple tasks efficiently
- Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix?
This question is a tad backwards, because looking at the etymology, it's rather clear that it's not a prefix that was added to form "history", but rather a part of the word was lost to form "story" Why that happened, however, is not obvious, so it's still a fair question to ask
- american english - Origins and history of on tomorrow, on today . . .
I have been poking around wondering about the colloquial usage of on tomorrow in Southern American English and wondering about its origins I can find some records of official usage of the phrase i
- Origin of good night - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
These are probably the most used two words in our day-to-day conversations We normally use superlative degrees all the time to emphasize something strongly That being the case why we don't use "better night" or "best night"? How did "good night" become such an integral part of our usage when we had other options?
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Emperor Constantine established the seven-day week in the Roman calendar in 321 and designated Sunday and Monday as the first two days of the week The other weekday names in English are derived from Anglo-Saxon names for gods in Teutonic mythology Tuesday comes from Tiu, or Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for Tyr, the Norse god of war
- etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . .
Holiday is a compound stemming from the words holy and day The word 'holiday' first surfaced in the 1500's replacing the earlier word 'haliday' which was recorded before 1200 in the Old English book Ancrene Riwle
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