2012年5月25日 · I always thought puce is purplish, perhaps because the Welsh word piws (pronounced "puce") means purple. The word entered English from the French, where it had …

2013年6月16日 · Before you can choose whether to use a singular or plural noun with any, you need to know which of the various functions and meanings it has in the context in which you …

2013年6月27日 · A pregnant pause is a pause that builds up suspension in the listener/viewer, for a greater dramatic (especially comic) effect of what follows after the pause.

slang for "female pudenda," 1879, but probably older; perhaps from Old Norse puss "pocket, pouch" (cf. Low German puse "vulva"), but perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy …

2011年5月13日 · q.v. stands for the phrase quod vide: "on this (matter) go see" Cf. is used chiefly to refer to articles proving or documenting one's point or having authority, not to avoid treating …

When I was in high school back in the 1970s, I was taught that to make a plural of an acronym, a letter, or a number, one should add an apostrophe and "s". Like I would have written this …

2011年5月7日 · The point of "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear" is that only rich people had silk purses. Poor people would be much more likely to make a serviceable but inelegant purse …

2022年7月13日 · The Latin word pusillanimous was too long, so it was shortened to "pussy" while holding its original meaning "cowardly" [feel free to edit …