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This is by no means a technical or literal definition, but my own personal greatest usage of the English word "punk" was mostly as an intracultural and also intracontinental way to laugh. I suppose sounds of words also give sentiment to speakers of any language.
I heard myself saying something was "tickety-boo", meaning good, successful, or satisfactory. Does anyone know where this strange-sounding phrase originated?
Tuberculosis was commonly called "consumption" for many years. When did "tuberculosis" or "TB" overtake "consumption" as the common term, in English, for the disease? This Ngram isn't much use; it
12 Were contractions less common in olden days? 11 History of the phrase "for Mother Russia" 12 What is the history of the oh-so-common English phrase, "come on!"? 3
The first word of the expression is now good and not God, for good replaced God by analogy with such expressions as good day, perhaps after people no longer had a clear idea of the original sense of the expression.
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
It sounds like something Ned Flanders would say. I believe it just means "nothing at all". But what are the origins of the phrase? Is it common in the US as well as the UK?
What is the history of “many moons ago”? Oxford Dictionaries tell me that the idiom means “a long time ago.” That's when we first met many, many moons agoand then we started having him on as a regular guest maybe once a month, maybe even twice a month. When I Googled "origin of ‘many moons ago’" the only relevant page I found was Yahoo!







