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Bookmark or Share- What is the difference between illegal and unlawful?Unlawful and lawful are good, stout Anglo-Saxon words that tend to be of the law-- that is, they are used in statute -- while illegal and legal are fine, robust Latinate words that have historically tended to be about the law-- they're lawyer talk, full of baloney (Bologna). –
- Why does "bass" sound like "base"? - English Language & Usage Stack ...21. Bass as in a bass guitar is indeed pronounced the way you say. However, the fish named bass is pronounced just the way it is spelled (with a short a, rhymes with gas). Asking why in English generally isn't all that productive. The issue with English is that it has been a written language for a very long time.
- Why is the word 'bologna' pronounced like 'baloney'?Here the noun seems to be "Bologna sausage," with Bologna performing much the same role as Brussels in "Brussels sprouts." The word bologna spelled with a lowercase b and standing alone as a noun referring to a type of sausage appears no later than 1903, although (as noted earlier) baloney also appears by itself by that date.
- What is the source of the phrase "phony baloney"?1894, variant of bologna sausage (q.v.). As slang for "nonsense," 1922, American English (popularized 1930s by N.Y. Gov. Alfred E. Smith; in this sense sometimes said to have been one of the coinages of legendary "Variety" staffer Jack Conway), from earlier sense of "idiot" (by 1915), perhaps influenced by blarney, but usually regarded as being ...
- Why is "t" sometimes pronounced like "d" in American English?Consonant softening (voiceless plosives becoming voiced, etc.) is normal in human language, although it is more likely (or, probably, simply faster to occur) between unstressed vowels.
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