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Bookmark or Share- What is Middle English for 'Hello'?I'm most grateful to those who have answered, although I can't use 'Hail' - the answer that they all offered. Whilst 'hail' was a common greeting in medieval times, the word is now too often associated with tongue-in-cheek facetiousness, as is evident from the title of the Coen Brothers' satirical movie about Hollywood, 'Hail, Caesar!
- phrases - Old times or old time? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAs reported from the NOAD, Old times is used, for example, in the phrase for old times' shake to mean in memory of former times, in acknowledgment of a shared past. They sat in the back seats for old times' sake. Old-time is used to refer to something old-fashioned in an approving or nostalgic way (old-time dancing).
- "Old days" or "olden days"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeEtymology: Probably originally an inflected form of old adj., although subsequently perhaps understood as showing old n. 2 + -en suffix 4. Phrases similar to olden days were common in both Old and Middle English. Old English had the phrase (on) ealdum dagum (compare old adj. 9a), with dative plural ending -um. In Middle English, such phrases ...
- Older ways to say "Dear" when writing a letterFrom the old letters I reviewed I found several related words: dear, deore and various other different archaic spelling, dearest, beloved(and other more friendly words) and title specific words such as, but not limited to, your highness and your honorable.
- What's an idiom for something that you've heard many times?old chestnut A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about hgow many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. This expression comes from William Diamond's play, The Broken Sword (1816), in which one character keeps repeatingthe same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time ...
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