Origin of the word whee - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Whee!" in response to every question people asked him about what was wrong with him—until a doctor "gave the customary treatment for whistleitis" (presumably an emetic) The punchline of the story is that the kid responds to the treatment by saying "Whee-ew!" which suggests that "whew" has probably been an interjection in English longer than
How do you spell hoo-wee! - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Following up on Joe Blow's suggestion in a comment above, I also found Google Books matches for hoohee, hoo-whee (and hoowhee), whohee, whoohee, whoowhee, whowhee, woohee, and woowee From James Post, Summer Chickens (and a Velvet Web) (2002): "Go for it, Bro!" he exhorted the doubtful-looking Barham “Hoohee, that is some bad blow! Go on
What is the origin and history of the word motherf---er? Most fortuitously for you, just a couple of days ago I stumbled upon a book that answers this and most any question one might have on the word fuck and its multitudinous derivatives — anyone who has the slightest bit curiosity about this subject would do well to check out Jesse Sheidlower's The F-word, a very accessible and fun book
grammar - When or Where when refering to scenario? - English . . . Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
Where does the period go when using parentheses? Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end ) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parentheses?
commas - Is “month year” or “month, year” the more common form of . . . @EdwinAshworth: One thing I noticed in looking at various style guides (most notably, AP) was that one can view the central issue as being not whether to separate the month from the year (the focus of my suggestion to WS2 that The New Yorker may like the comma in remembrance of the lost of between month and year), but whether to set off the year—on both sides—from the surrounding text
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The OED gives an earlier date and a more precise origin: Wheeze (n )2 Originally Theatre slang, A joke or comic gag introduced into the performance of a piece by a clown or comedian, esp a comic phrase or saying introduced repeatedly; hence, (gen slang or colloquial) a catchphrase constantly repeated; more widely, a trick or dodge frequently used; also, a piece of special information, a
Correct use of lie or lay in the following context You can convey three different ideas by your choice of lay, lie, or both Idea #1: The project focused on technologies in which you were then proficient
etymology - Why do people say buck for a dollar? - English Language . . . @MarkMayo Well, Etymonline agrees with your conjecture, but unfortunately they were also unable to turn up any specific evidence for it: Meaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748