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Bookmark or Share- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language ...I think your second two examples could have gone either way. Convention plays a big part. In the UK we talk about 'the south coast', but rarely capitalise it, similarly with the 'west country'. Yet the West Midlands is to all intents a proper noun and always capitalised, as is East Anglia.
- etymology - Origin of the idiom "go south" - English Language & Usage ...go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the ...
- Can "Mr", "Mrs", etc. be used with a first name?[First Name] is especially common in the U.S. South and as a way for children to address adults who aren't related to them. But I don't think that anyone has pointed out that Mister [First Name], Miss [First Name], etc., were a standard way for African American slaves (and later, servants) in the South to address their masters (and later ...
- What's the origin of the common phrase "I call shenanigans"?In "Cow Days," the thirteenth episode of the second season of South Park, the boys are at a carnival playing games which they come to suspect are rigged. Kyle calls shenanigans, which brings Officer Barbrady to investigate.
- What's the origin of using "toboggan" to mean a knit cap?I'd always know the word "toboggan" to mean a sled. In the last couple years I've met people who insisted on calling their winter knit caps "toboggans." All of these people happened to be from either
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