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Bookmark or Share- verbs - The past participle of "split": "split" or "splitted ...I have just written a question in the PPCG site, and now that I read it again I have just noticed that I have just written "split" and "splitted" randomly as the past participle of "to split": C...
- What is the origin of the term "toots" to refer to a woman?And the earliest instance where Tootsie appears as a lovey-dovey name for a sweetheart is from "A Guilt Chain," in Truth (December 25, 1880), based (it appears) on "Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake": Happy thought! happy thought! Goldsmith's man, Make me gold fetters as soon as you can! Mould them, and beat them, and mark them A B,
- single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin between the ...@Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.
- etymology - What was the idiom for multitasking before chewing gum was ...A similar expression, but one not tied to a modern invention, is pat your head and rub your tummy. It isn't used in quite the same way; the "chew gum" expression is only ever used negatively, but it indicates an ability to perform two unrelated actions simultaneously.
- More formal way of saying: "Sorry to bug you again about this, but ..."I assume by "Sorry to bug you again about this" that you were already given help with "X", so instead of an apology, perhaps a thank you would work better:
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