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- Etymological origin of deosil and widdershins
Deosil comes from Gaelic (both the Irish and Scottish forms, found as deiseil, deiseal and deasal), and means "right", being the direction one turns when going clockwise
- Origin of the phrase Now were cooking with
Origin Gas cookers began to replace wood-burners around 1915, and the actual phrase was used by Hollywood radio comedians around December 1939, and then appropriated by gas companies to promote gas cooking from around 1941 onwards
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
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- What is the origin of sucker and it sucks?
etymonline has for suck: O E sucan, from PIE root sug- suk-of imitative origin Meaning “do fellatio” is first recorded 1928
- What is the difference between a dieresis and an umlaut?
This is implied by the second quote, but one thing you could add is if one wants to make an educated guess at whether one is looking at a dieresis or an umlaut, one should look if the diacritic is placed over a vowel that is preceded by another vowel, in which case it is more likely a dieresis
- word choice - What types of sounds do cars make? - English Language . . .
A driving car makes a different sound than a car that is starting up A driving car might purr if it's a good car, or hum or drone
- meaning - What does the term 86d relate to? - English Language . . .
I've been a professional chef for 16 years, and the context in which we use the term is always the same: telling a coworker, especially a waiter, to stop taking orders for a particular item because we ran out of it
- pronunciation - Whats the rule for pronouncing “’s” as z or s . . .
If the final sound in the base of the word is voiced, we use the voiced alveolar sibilant z If the last sound in the base is an unvoiced consonant, we use s
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