What is the 1896 source for the origin of dyke? a source from 1896 lists dyke as slang for "the vulva " This same sentence is found on the Online Etymology Dictionary, Queer Cafe, Dictionary com, etc (most of which cite the Online Etymology Dictionary)
Differences between dyke, levee and berm? - English Language Usage . . . A dyke and a levee are both walls to keep out water It appears that levee is associated only with rivers while dyke can also apply to the sea A berm isn't necessarily associated with damming water It's just a raised area (mound or ledge) of dirt
Suffering succotash - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Welcome to EL U Please note that this is a Q A site, not a discussion forum, but your post does not answer the original question, which asks whether sufferin' succotash was still in common use before the Looney Tunes cartoons were made, years before the Dick Van Dyke Show aired
Initial capitalization of foreign surnames with particles when . . . Fortunately, The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) deals with this question on page 388: 8 5 Names with particles Many names include particles such as de, d', de la, von, van, and ten Practice with regard to capitalization and spacing the particles varies widely, and confirmation should be sought in a biographical dictionary or other authoritative source When the surname is used alone
american english - English Language Usage Stack Exchange “Torta” is a Spanish word commonly referring to a type of sandwich or cake I have encountered the word “torta” used in English in informal contexts such as social media and online conversations,
What does shyme mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Looking at it in context, it appears the author is deliberately misspelling words to capture features of the character Thomas Bilder's accent The wonderful paper "Nonstandard Language and the Cultural Stakes of Stoker's 'Dracula'" by Ferguson (2004) describes him as a "cockney" (p 241) As the table on Wikipedia shows, in Cockney the vowel in shame would be pronounced [æɪ~aɪ], much like
Difference between ditch, trench and gutter [closed] Thus Offa's Dyke is a combined structure and Car Dyke is a trench, though it once had raised banks as well In the midlands and north of England, and in the United States, a dike is what a ditch is in the south, a property boundary marker or small drainage channel