3 "The day is young" corresponds to "the hour is early" or better still simply "it is early". To me "the day is early" would be slightly unusual, but might suggest the early part of a longer period, …

The term "have a good day" was the phrase of the times. Everyone used it, I had to hear it so many times during the course of the day that I nearly went mad with the boredom of the …

In old books, people often use the spelling "to-day" instead of "today". When did the change happen? Also, when people wrote "to-day", did they feel, when pronouncing the word, that it …

The other day, I was reading a history of the Norman and Angevin kings, and came across the word kirk in an ecclesiastical context, which I had to look up, having no clue of its meaning. …

The expression "all the livelong day" can be found as early as 1579, when it appeared in Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives, in the chapter on the "Life of Romulus" (you can find this …

Each day of the week is named for the planet ruling its first hour. The rest is pure arithmetic. Twenty-four hours ruled by seven planets leaves a remainder of three, so beginning with the …

In the following sentence, would it be correct to use a comma to before every day? We find loans for people with bad credit or no history of borrowing, every day.

A common word for these events is a milestone: An important event, as in a person's career, the history of a nation, or the advancement of knowledge in a field; a turning point.

European History of the second half of the 19th century is European History that belongs between 1850 and 1899. European History from the second half of the 19th century is European History …

This question is a tad backwards, because looking at the etymology, it's rather clear that it's not a prefix that was added to form "history", but rather a part of the word was lost to form "story". …