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Bookmark or Share- 'What ho!' of Bertie Wooster - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange"What ho!" - this strange form of greeting is used all the time by Bertie Wooster, a character of well-known "Jeeves and Wooster" stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Bertie Wooster: Oh, what ho, Sir Wa...
- Is there any other way you can "wax" as you do when you "wax ...@Cerberus: You do not mention -- this is perhaps self-evident for you, that the "grow" sense of wax is very much alive in modern German: wachsen - to grow, die Erwachsenen : the adults (= the grown-ups).
- meaning - Are "adult" and "adulterate" cognates? - English Language ...The word adult appear to have derived from the Latin term adultus, meaning grown up, mature, adult, ripe. Adulterate (and its cognate adultery) is reported to derive from the Latin adulterare - to falsify, corrupt. Are the meanings and derivation of adult and adulterate, directly related, or is this just a coincidence of spelling?
- Are the words "sillily", "uglily", "friendlily", "livelily", etc ...I'm sorry, but who cares about popularity contests? That does not decide whether something has been used in English, or is well formed. Just because there is currently a politically charged taboo against the U-word being spoken in front of grown-ups amongst the immigrant preteens temporarily housed on the Isle of Man does not matter at all.
- Specific word for "grown-up children"? [duplicate]Is there a specific word for adult offspring? If all of your "children" are now in their adulthood, is there a specific word to refer to them?
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