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Bookmark or Share- Is a certification “gotten”, “earned”, or “obtained”?According to the COED, certification means. an official document attesting a fact, in particular: • a document recording a person’s birth, marriage, or death: a birth certificate • a document confirming that someone has reached a certain level of achievement in a course of study or training: a university-accredited certificate
- How did the word "beaver" come to be associated with vagina?Jonathon Green's sources (as cited in Brian Hooper's answer) notwithstanding, the limerick that appears in Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel (1927) runs as follows:
- Origin, meaning, and derivation of 'boof' as a verb in U.S. slangAn Elephind newspaper database search turns up five matches for boofed as a past-tense verb during the period April 1983 to June 1987, at two university newspapers: the Stanford [California] Daily and the [Houston, Texas] Rice Thresher.
- Where did the phrase "batsh*t crazy" come from?The word crazy is a later addition. Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now.
- Why does 'coed' only mean female coeducational students?Cornell University, one of the first universities to embrace coeducation, became a coed institution in 1870.In a 2005 book by Margaret A. Lowe titled Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875-1930, the author explains using first-hand accounts by the pioneering "coeds" of the time:
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