When did adding up to phrases become a thing? - Page 5

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@on the bay wrote:
@amyb,
Fellow word nerd here and not apologizing for it!😁
My mother had a huge Random House dictionary prominently displayed on it's own pedestal table in the living room for as long as I can remember.
As far as nother, apparently it is a word according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary and has been used since the 1400's! I've always used it-like-"that's a nother situation," etc. It was only until the 20th century that people started thinking of it as shortening another and thought it wrong.
And "change it up" we've always said like in "you might want to change it up!"
It seems it was originally a baseball term-"changeup,"and in the UK it refers to changing the gears in the car or something like that.
How can we possibly get through a week without these terms that really just say it like it is?
And I have time to discuss😄

@on the bay

Thank you.

So often one or a ‘nother of us neglects to take a peek into the generally available dictionary before commenting.

Not born in 1400, never the less it is a word I have heard and used all my life.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

Enufstuff · ‎03-12-2010

My grown children now call them hoodies, but when I was buying them for my children and husband, they were called "Hood Sweatshirts" or Hooded Sweatshirt Jackets".

I still wear cardigans. Once wore camisoles and I go on vacations. I also find all the abbreviations annoying. I never ate a

sami.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Drythe,

Good one😅

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

I will never say mani/pedi-cringe😬

though my daughter and everyone under the sun I know uses it.Maybe because I rarely go enough to shorten a manicure pedicure.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

@Drythe Haven't seen you on here in awhile. Good to see you.

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Sooner wrote:
These things do weigh on my nerves. It is all so distressing. Why recently I heard someone say "pregnant" instead of "with child." She said it in the afternoon, right there at the tea table! Can you even imagine?