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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 Societyposted a videoon the old chestnut that “the whole nine yards” refers to the length of machine gun belts. As he shows for the Vickers a...
In the early 1810s, King Kamehameha I of Hawaii united the islands as the Kingdom of Hawaii, though the etymology behind the name is unclear. One theory is that British explorer Captain James Cook asked the Natives where he was when he landed in 1778, and wrote it down as “Owhyhee,”...
Whole, like very, completely, and so forth, makes a trivial statement more emphatic; hence its allure. Remember the whole nine yards. Buzzwords The use of clichés allows one to speak like a machine and to be rewarded with a membership in a prestigious club. You say so-and so made ...
Ladamo by O’driu smells like a Christmas craft store – scads of thick, velvety dirt, fallen apples, mulled wine, grated ginger root, the whole nine yards – but without the nasty chemical edge… 26th April 2023 Amber Balsamic Carnation Leather Opoponox Review Rose Smoke Spice Spicy Flora...
idioms do what they do because they are part of the ongoing and ever-changing doings of culture. This doesn’t mean that a word’s etymology can’t shed some insight on it, but any attempt to pin its meaning down definitively will, eventually, come up against an impasse. Terms, expressi...
Nineveh in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE nin'-e-ve (nineweh; Nineue, Nineui; Greek and Roman writers, Ninos): I. BEGINNINGS, NAME, POSITION 1. First Biblical Mention 2. Etymology of the Name 3. Position on the Tigris II. NINEVEH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 1. Its Walls 2. Principal ...
idioms do what they do because they are part of the ongoing and ever-changing doings of culture. This doesn’t mean that a word’s etymology can’t shed some insight on it, but any attempt to pin its meaning down definitively will, eventually, come up against an impasse. Terms, expressi...
“the blue meteor”. I found one reference to the etymology of the name: “passenger” being a corruption of the Frenchpassager, which means either “swiftly passing” or “voyager” (I don’t speak 17thcentury French). They had a considerable range, being found east of the Rocky ...
Nine Day Tour: Day 8. Sarahan to Shimla. 170 kms. Passing along the Sutlej river valley and along the historic Hindustan-Tibet Road. 11. Temple of Mangnee ‘The temple was remarkably neat, quite in the Chinese style, as usual: it is sacred to the goddess Bhowanee. The whole of th...