2020年3月25日 · Whee!" in response to every question people asked him about what was wrong with him—until a doctor "gave the customary treatment for whistleitis" (presumably an emetic). The punchline of the story is that the kid responds to the treatment by saying "Whee-ew!" which suggests that "whew" has probably been an interjection in English longer than ...

2024年12月6日 · Following up on Joe Blow's suggestion in a comment above, I also found Google Books matches for hoohee, hoo-whee (and hoowhee), whohee, whoohee, whoowhee, whowhee, woohee, and woowee. From James Post, Summer Chickens (and a Velvet Web) (2002): "Go for it, Bro!" he exhorted the doubtful-looking Barham. “Hoohee, that is some bad …

2014年4月2日 · It's "slang", first recorded by OED 1873 Routledge's Yng.Gentl. Mag. Feb. 137/1 It'll give you what for if it touches your lips., with the definition to give (one) what for = to inflict severe pain or chastisement.

Most fortuitously for you, just a couple of days ago I stumbled upon a book that answers this and most any question one might have on the word fuck and its multitudinous derivatives — anyone who has the slightest bit curiosity about this subject would do well to check out Jesse Sheidlower's The F-word, a very accessible and fun book.

2012年7月7日 · Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end.) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parenthe...

2011年1月10日 · Prior to the invention of the Linotype, typographers would follow the abbreviation with a period and narrow space if it occurred mid-sentence, or with a period and wide space if it appeared at the end, thus avoiding ambiguity except in the case where the period was the last thing on the line (an occurrence which people hand-setting type would try to avoid mid …

@EdwinAshworth: One thing I noticed in looking at various style guides (most notably, AP) was that one can view the central issue as being not whether to separate the month from the year (the focus of my suggestion to WS2 that The New Yorker may like the comma in remembrance of the lost of between month and year), but whether to set off the year—on both sides—from the …

2014年11月18日 · You can call them abecedarian words.. Abecedarian is an adjective meaning "being arranged alphabetically". It comes from the Latin abecedarius, which means "alphabetical," based on the names of the first letters of the Latin alphabet.

2014年7月30日 · You can convey three different ideas by your choice of lay, lie, or both.. Idea #1: The project focused on technologies in which you were then proficient.

2022年2月12日 · Here's the sentence example: And Lucy, she often goes for a run. And Lucy; she often goes for a run. Which is more appropriate? Thank you.