Family, friends gather to say goodbye to tow truck driver struck, killed Family and friends came together in Bridgeview, Illinois, Friday afternoon for the funeral of Hussan Farhat, the tow truck driver who was struck and killed in Waukesha County on Christmas Eve. Family ... 12/27/2024 - 3:28 pm | View Link
From Maggie Smith to James Earl Jones: All the Hollywood Stars We Said Goodbye to in 2024 We take a look back at all the actors, actresses, artists, and reality stars we said goodbye to in 2024, including James Earl Jones and Maggie Smith. 12/27/2024 - 9:15 am | View Link
Miley Cyrus Bids Bittersweet Goodbye to 2024, Welcomes 2025 A famous Christmas song once told us “to face unafraid the plans that we've made,” and naturally, getting to the end of every year tends to make us open up to many reflections. We look back to the ... 12/27/2024 - 3:01 am | View Link
goodbye, farewell, so long | WordReference Forums I believe that "goodbye" is used far more often than "farewell" which sounds to my ears much more formal. (I used to quote Google hits to determine if a word was used more often but I have come to believe that those numbers are not reliable indicators of usage.) From informal to more formal: bye-bye, goodbye, farewell (to my ears at any rate). 12/27/2024 - 8:41 am | View Website
Take care instead of Goodbye To begin, I think 'take care' is something one should say in addition to saying 'goodbye'. I do not think it is a replacement for goodbye, rather it is more of an added farewell message to a goodbye. Thus, it is common to say to another person: "goodbye and take care". It simply means that you wish them well and you hope that things are good ... 12/27/2024 - 4:09 am | View Website
Where does "ta!" come from? When a term originates in northern English dialects as "ta" appears to, I often begin by looking at nordic languages as much of northern England was conquered by the Vikings and the parts of the language endure both in words and in the overall sound - if you listen the geordie accent has a definite scandinavian cadence to it. 12/27/2024 - 2:57 am | View Website
"Good bye", "Bye", "Bye bye" (The origin of "goodbye" is "God be with you", so arguably the other person ought to be going on a significant journey that you have to wish such support.) This distinction is probably lost on many people, but I have seen people startled when the wrong variant is used. As for the "bye" variants, I'd say "goodbye": quite formal 12/26/2024 - 12:07 am | View Website
etymology According to the author, who painstakingly traced the lexical history of goodbye, the term Good (it remained capitalised) first appeared in 1676-1700 in the forms of: Good b'w'y , Good b'we ; Good b'wy to ye ; Good b'uy to you ; Good by t'ye ; 12/25/2024 - 11:09 pm | View Website