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 …

3 "The day is young" corresponds to "the hour is early" or better still simply "it is early". To me "the day is early" would be slightly unusual, but might suggest the early part of a longer period, …

Aug 17, 2018 · In the following sentence, would it be correct to use a comma to before every day? We find loans for people with bad credit or no history of borrowing, every day.

Sep 10, 2012 · 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 …

Nov 30, 2023 · I've been reading a lot of various classic literature, and at times there is the sort of casual misogyny or racism that was commonplace and (within certain cultures) the social norm …

Dec 22, 2012 · The words story and history share much of their lineage, and in previous eras, the overlap between them was much messier than it is today. “That working out of distinction,” …

I Googled the phrase "time of day idiom" because I was particularly interested in the origin/etymology of the "time of day" part. I readily found the meaning (which I already knew), …

Aug 16, 2011 · According to Google's Books Ngram Viewer, the phrase was coined some time around 1800 and peaked around 1930: The oldest reference I could find for "olden days" is the …

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 …

Feb 15, 2018 · Each day of the week is named for the planet ruling its first hour. The rest is pure arithmetic. Twenty-four hours ruled by seven planets leaves a remainder of three, so …