Dec 22, 2012 · History is a specialized version of the general story; they have different senses even though they come from the same root. But one can say the same for kind and gentle, or …

Closed 14 years ago. Possible Duplicate: When should I use “a” versus “an” in front of a word beginning with the letter h? Why do we say an historical but a history? This question was …

Jan 29, 2014 · I understand that the letter "J" is relatively new — perhaps 400–500 years old. But since there has long been important names that begin with J, such as Jesus, Joshua, …

Sep 10, 2011 · The book Speech acts in the history of English dedicates an entire chapter to greetings in English language history. Among the greetings that it covers, I would say that the …

Jan 15, 2011 · Historical statistics on contractions in writing Now to the data. In English books, at least, the usage of our apostrophied contractions instead of full forms appears to have …

Mar 6, 2013 · How did crush come to be used to mean "an intense but usually short-lived infatuation"?

May 7, 2015 · In this excerpt, A. M. refers to Anno Mundi (Year of the World), counted from its origin. A second early instance appears in Joseph Priestly, A Description of a New Chart of …

Jun 3, 2018 · 2 Other answers touch on the history of the word salary as it connects back to Latin. I'll try to trace a different question - the development of the salarius = soldiers are paid salt folk …

I see and hear two general slang usages of cool - one meaning great (illustrated by a and b below), and one meaning acceptable/okay (illustrated by c and d). The following are …

Are you asking about the specific punctuation (using an apostrophe plus a letter "s") or the actual word order? Also, I wouldn't personally consider the Saxon genitive (as it is known) to be …