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etymology - What's the origin of "all the livelong day?" - English ...
...All the livelong day: the expression is actually generally used with a negative connotation, to refer to a period of time that is too long, too tiring: all day long. Well, of course you get to feeling stiff, sitting in front of a computer all the livelong day. I'd go crazy if I had to stay at home all the livelong day....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/286411/whats-the-origin-of-all-the-livelong-day
Why "tickety-boo"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...I heard myself saying something was "tickety-boo", meaning good, successful, or satisfactory. Does anyone know where this strange-sounding phrase originated?...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10526/why-tickety-boo
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
idioms - Origin/first known use of the phrase 'I've got some good news ...
...When was the idiom, "I've got some good news and some bad news" first used, or when did it become a common joke?...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/258235/origin-first-known-use-of-the-phrase-ive-got-some-good-news-and-some-bad-news
Date format in UK vs US - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...Why is the most common date format in the US like mm/dd/yyyy, whereas in Europe (including the UK) it's more common to have dd/mm/yyyy? Looking around, I found that the US form is actually the more...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/68844/date-format-in-uk-vs-us
etymology - History of the phrase "olden days" - English Language ...
...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 1805 Tobias: a poem : in three parts by Rev. Luke Booker: And the oldest I found for "olden times" is Poems on Affairs of State from 1620 to this Present Year 1707, in a poem called "GIGANTOMAXIA, or a full and true Relation of ......
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38185/history-of-the-phrase-olden-days
What is the history of the expression ?many moons ago??
...Purportedly this was the terminology used by Native Americans (at least in kiddie westerns of the 40s and 50s). "Many moons ago" obviously means "many months ago" -- a long time ago. It could of course have been an invention of writers who wanted to "sound Indian" in speech attributed to Native Americans in books and movies, but there's no particular reason to suspect this....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/290389/what-is-the-history-of-the-expression-many-moons-ago
Where did the phrase "diddly-squat" come from?
...It sounds like something Ned Flanders would say. I believe it just means "nothing at all". But what are the origins of the phrase? Is it common in the US as well as the UK?...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/35556/where-did-the-phrase-diddly-squat-come-from
etymology - When did the a/an distinction happen? - English Language ...
...An was originally an unstressed form of the number ?n 'one'. Juncture loss: In a process called juncture loss, the n has wandered back and forth between the indefinite article and words beginning with vowels over the history of the language, where for example what was once a nuncle is now an uncle....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/234814/when-did-the-a-an-distinction-happen
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
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