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- Where does otay come from? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I've heard a few people (all native English speakers) recently use "otay" in place of "okay", both in writing and when speaking Where does that word come from? For that matter, is it a word at all
- Where does the idiom whole cloth come from? [closed]
I have heard it used several times recently, but I had no idea what it meant until I looked the term up on the Internet, because I had never heard it before Where does whole cloth come from? Ho
- etymology - Where does the word good come from? - English Language . . .
According to Google, and a few other sources, "good" was originally the verbal and adjective equivalent of "god" (hence the good news') but I was wondering where the word originally came from and w
- Where does get-go come from? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Where does the compound word "get-go", as in the phrase "right from the get-go" come from? None of the dictionary definitions I've seen try to explain it, and the Etymology Dictionary doesn't even
- etymology - Make it so! - where does it come from, how does it feel . . .
The catchphrase from Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard "Make it so!" was first used in "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) and thereafter in many episodes and films, instructing a crew me
- Where does patching through come from? - English Language Usage . . .
Where does "patching through" come from? And what did it originally mean? Usage: "I'm patching through a call from Mr X"
- Why is quixotic pronounced as it is? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
"The correct pronunciation is 'Don Qui-Sh-Otay', because in the book the character speaks in old Castilian " By extension, "quixotic" should be pronounced: [kee-sho-tik] (Or [quiche-ottik], if you prefer ) Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find other sources to back this up QI's research team has a respectable reputation, though
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