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Bookmark or Share- Why has the "plague" on our houses become a "pox?"I am sped:—Is he gone and hath nothing? That instance of "a plague on both the houses" evidently remained unchanged from the 1597 quarto to the 1623 first folio edition, even as the two subsequent instances of "A pox o' both your houses" in the quarto edition became "A plague o' both your houses" (along with other significant changes in ...
- What is the origin of the phrase “it warms the cockles of my heart”?Jezebel:/ The Queen had inkling: instantly she sped/ To curl the Cockles of her new-bought head:/ The Saphyr, Onyx, Garnet, Diamond,/In various forms cut by a curious hand,/ Hang nimbly dancing in her hair, as spangles: Here the "Cockles" appear to be ringlets, perhaps (in this case) on a wig.
- word choice - What types of sounds do cars make? - English Language ...A driving car makes a different sound than a car that is starting up. A driving car might purr if it's a good car, or hum or drone.
- Which is the correct past tense of "spin": "span" or "spun"?The conjugation of irregular verbs can vary by dialect. In a very unscientific experiment, I googled "span the thread" and "he span the top", and I got a number of results using span as the past tense of spin, so it seems some people still use span as the past tense of spin, although it's rare.
- Speeded vs. Sped - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThe past participles (and past tenses) "speeded" and "sped" are used in different grammatical situations. When "speed" is an intransitive verb, the past tense is almost invariably "sped". When "speed" is a transitive verb, the past tense is usually "speeded" (although "sped" is being increasingly used in this situation).
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