While that theory appears plausible on the surface, there's a whole lot wrong with it. First, ammunition is most commonly measured in rounds and sometimes by weight, but not by the length of the belt that holds it. Second, "the whole nine yards" did not appear in print until approximate...
The etymology of theWhole Nine Yardsis decidedly murky. No one knows exactly where it came from. Not even the etymologists. It’s a mystery. Likewise, the expressionDressed to the Ninesis a puzzle to the etymologists. Not just to me. Its origin, its parentage is unknown. DittoCloud Ni...
We have a number of phrases to refer to the totality of something: we talk of the be-all and end-all, the whole nine yards, of doing something from soup to nuts. But before we had any of those words, we had alpha and omega. When it first entered English in the 1300s, it was...
An Answer for “The Whole Nine Yards” This is really cool. I never thought we’d get an answer to this one. My friend Rich Fisher at the Vickers Machine Gun Collection & Research Society posted a video on the old chestnut that “the whole nine yards” refers to the length of machine...
Etymology Noun Middle English, from Anglo-French esquarre, from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from *exquadrare to square, from Latin ex- + quadrare to square — more at quadrate First Known Use Noun 13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Adjective 14th century, in the meaning define...
Etymology Since Waluigi has the same first two letters of Wario, Waluigi's name may be considered an offshoot of Wario's name derived from Luigi rather than Mario. Waluigi's Japanese etymology has several meanings that refer to his personality. In Japanese, the "r" and "l" make the sam...
More than merely sharing a place, this etymology reminds us that community is about what values, experiences and lives we share, and that community is about service. Being intentional about community means deliberately focusing on what connects us rather than what divides us, and on how we can...
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They had to be at least 9 feet long, essentially straight, and many of them had to end in some sort of "Y" so that they could catch each other and together, make the whole thing sturdy through their coordinated rebellion against gravity. Then, the next day we layered the walls to ...