The term "do or die" comes from Robert Burns' poem "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn" which was a poem about the first War of Scottish Independence.The last stanza of the poem …

The term electrocute was originally coined in 1889¹ by splicing the prefix electro-into the word execute.It originally meant execute (by electric shock).

2017年7月5日 · Perhaps "direct" and "indirect" are an oversimplification. It's more along the lines of proximate versus ultimate causes. You "die of" a proximate cause, whereas you "die from" …

2016年3月8日 · Die of is rather more frequent than die from in both the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus, and by a greater ratio in the latter. It would …

2015年4月13日 · The current popular verb for someone who has died is to say they "passed." It sounds incorrect to me -- isn't the proper terminology "passed-away"? I've noticed that people …

2019年6月19日 · Proves that it is correct are: movie "Til death do us apart" (2018) and various songs titled with "Apart". Proves that "Part" is correct: the actual oath, wiki and various songs …

2016年1月24日 · The Greek translates rather as “let the die be cast!”, or “Let the game be ventured!” It would appear as though the Die referred to, was the singular form of a pair of …

2016年1月15日 · With David Bowie and Alan Rickman dying within a few days on each other (RIP), I've heard some people say, "Death always comes in threes, I wonder who's next."

2023年5月18日 · @Pryftan: I don't think the OED is the arbiter of "English proper". (And note that it theoretically covers all forms of English, so if it's missing a sense that's known to occur in …

2018年9月3日 · The usage is typically "the late."I haven't heard it used without a determiner. Here are some quotations from the OED's definition of "late" (III.2.a(a)) showing this usage is typical …