Where does blah meaning idle talk come from? Bla! Bla! What absurd ideas some people have 1848 - The Santa Fe Republican (Santa Fe, NM) 15 Oct 3 4 Baby talk A few other early examples use "bla" to describe baby-talk, setting up the possibility that it was first used to describe meaningless talk from an infant and grew from that to refer to idle or meaningless talk generally
What is a term or idiom for blah blah blah talk? I am looking for a term or and idiomatic expression to convey the concept of "empty, irrelevant" talk I am thinking about those situations in which people want to express their ideas on facts ab
What to use for rain ? Set on, set off, set in, set down I saw this in an English Level Test I don't remember the complete sentence It was like, bla bla bla (here there was something I don't remember) really rain Three dots is where you will use one of the verbs on the title I wrote What to use for 3 dots in this case? What do other verbs mean and how to use them in a sentence?
What goes better with first -- second or secondly? Why did such and so happen? First, bla bla Second, bla-pity bla bla bla I'm thinking "secondly" would sound better But if I use "secondly," do I have to use "firstly" -- which sounds so -- yuck The tone of the piece of writing is medium formal I mean, it's formal, but not formal at the level of a brief submitted to the Supreme Court
word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Nowadays, to my surprise, this word is completely replaced by toffees cough- drops sweet- tablets candies bla… bla… bla… which caused me to think that the word is obsolete now
etymology - What is the origin of the word Blackmail? - English . . . At the risk of antagonizing people further, I've done some additional research into the original use (s) of blackmail, and I've appended a discussion of the information I turned up to my original answer below Again, my hope is to persuade the users who voted the original question "off-topic" to reconsider their position in light of the evidentiary uncertainty surrounding the term's origin