Tag: etymology
- Attaboys from petty cash
- The etymology of “done for”
- How did “realize” change from “make real” to 2 new senses: ‘understand’, ‘come to understand’
- The original superlative form of well
- In the field of bookbinding, where does the term “Davey Board” come from
- Do ‘verity’ and ‘verily’ derive from ‘very’
- Origin of the phrase “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s”
- Why are ‘at least’ and ‘a lot’ not single words
- History of the expression “Moses basket”
- What makes the spelling of “psychedelic” a mongrel spelling