Website review: phrase origins
hermeti discovered this in Linguistics
•32 reviews since Feb 23, 2007
linguistics, language
•backroadstouring.co.uk/phraseorigins.htm
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hermeti discovered 17 months ago- everyday british phrases explained
- Bychance rated 11 months ago
- always interesting to look for the origin of expressions. It's an endless source, and so enrichening! Thanks for the pick!
- gimo49 rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "'Fortnight' Hadrian's Wall, built to guard the Romans northern England border against the marauding Scots, had forts situated at regular intervals along its length. Every two weeks the soldiers got to sleep inside them and this is where our term for two weeks, 'Fortnight' comes from."
- Sequnda rated 14 months ago
- Though this isn't one of the "meaning of life" sites, it is a pleasant one to dip into on a lazy day. Small titbits of information always oil the day along. Take this for example: "A Wake" = Many people were buried alive in times past because it was not recognised that they might simply be in a coma. This was especially true of people who drunk as many would get dead drunk, and cider drinkers often lead poisoning. Thus a body was left out awhile, and a party thrown around it, just to make sure the corpse didn't `wake' up! The English is curious though. :) By the way, "titbits" became "tidbits" (that is, spelt with a "d") when it was considered that the original spelling might refer to breasts (Agh! Oh! Alas! Alas!) hence lead to sin and perdition! And I bet you didn't know that! :)
- nugat rated 16 months ago
- Not 100% accurate, but a good reference nonetheless.
- alwayslost rated 16 months ago
- Etymology for some British English phrases and sayings.
- capitolgirl rated 16 months ago
- more fun with word origins, for we weirdos who spent our allowance on workbooks
- irofram7heusen rated 16 months ago
- ok cool. maybe theories are just theories, but interesting enough
