History of "have a good one" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...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 phrase. So, after a while I started to return "Have a good day" with "Have A Good One" meaning have a good whatever got you off....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37233/history-of-have-a-good-one
history - Change from to-day to today - English Language & Usage Stack ...
...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...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/81155/change-from-to-day-to-today
Etymology of "history" and why the "hi-" prefix?
...That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion of herstory during the 1970s, says Dictionary.com?s Jane Solomon, ?to point out the fact that history has mostly come from a male perspective.? The ?his? in history has nothing, linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/95146/etymology-of-history-and-why-the-hi-prefix
grammaticality - When should I use "a" versus "an" in front of a word ...
...Both "a history" and "a historian" begin with an H sound. If you slur it into 'istorian, then I would use "an" in spoken sentences (but as that's an incorrect pronunciation anyway you should definitely write it as "a historian."...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/629/when-should-i-use-a-versus-an-in-front-of-a-word-beginning-with-the-letter-h
At Night or In the Night? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...In olden times, when the time expression "at night" was originated, night might have been thought as a point of time in the day because there wasn't any activity going on and people were sleeping that time unlike daytime. It represents the dark hours and the late time of the day....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/121858/at-night-or-in-the-night
"I'm well" vs. "I'm good" vs. "I'm doing well", etc
...The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? ? How are you? I'm well. [Misunderstood the question.] because well as an adjective which means: in good health especially a......
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/605/im-well-vs-im-good-vs-im-doing-well-etc
What is the origin of the phrase "'til the cows come home"?
...I was in Bavaria in the late 1970s and early 1980s and I actually saw the cows coming home. The cows all belonged to different farmers and would go up into the pastures for the day, and at the end of the day they would ?come home?. You could actually see them all walking together and splitting off when they got to their farms....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9651/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-til-the-cows-come-home
The meaning and the origins of "everything's gone pear-shaped."
...Day flying, too, could have its unexpected moments. When coming in to land at Pembroke Dock Fred Perry's Southampton lost part of its trailing aerial, complete with pear-shaped weight, because the pilot had neglected to to tell him to wind the aerial in. It is imaginable that losing such a weight could translate to losing control....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30948/the-meaning-and-the-origins-of-everythings-gone-pear-shaped
etymology - What is the origin of the colloquial term "bum" meaning a ...
...Just out of curiosity, I was wondering about the history of the term "bum" meaning a homeless person, not the UK version referring to someone's posterior. Bonus: If you know the background on "Ho......
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1756/what-is-the-origin-of-the-colloquial-term-bum-meaning-a-homeless-person
A word/phrase for an unexpected change or turn of events in a person's ...
...Inflection points are more significant than the small day-to-day progress typically made, and the effects of the change are often well known and widespread. Based on mathematical charting models, the inflection point is where the direction of a curve changes in response to an event....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/378378/a-word-phrase-for-an-unexpected-change-or-turn-of-events-in-a-persons-life