http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/8 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:28:29 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/forums/8 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3654/t/Did-a-number-on.html Snopes message board, just as an example of use, but it's a very common idiom.

The Victorians did a real number on Norse and Germanic cultures and it wouldn't surprise me to find out they did the same with ancient British culture as well.

So how old is this phrase, and any ideas as to how it originated?
]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3654 Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:34:13 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3657/t/Rejigger.html Washington Post in reference to the dropping of Donahue:

MSNBC executives are now faced with the all too familiar task of rejiggering their prime-time lineup.

Rejiggering? Shouldn't that be rejigging, or is this a legitimate variant? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3657 Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:25:29 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3656/t/Hero.html
On the Take our word for it page you referenced for the Hamburger question they seem to say "the feminine form of the Greek heros was heroine"

That doesn't sound right to me that Greek has/had feminine suffix -ine? And there was Hera in Greek mythology (may not be related etymologically to hero?).

I thought that if anything "hero" could be used then for either a man or woman - although as... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ht2003) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3656 Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:54:44 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3651/t/Hamburger.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3651 Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:39:20 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3636/t/-quot-the-bottom-line-quot-.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3636 Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:04:19 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3655/t/Staying-Frosty.html
Can anybody offer the origin of this phrase? Supplemental info?
Many thanks ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3655 Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:48:01 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3637/t/Spook.html feeds@yuku.com (aldiboronti) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3637 Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:23:29 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3648/t/Eulogy-vs-Elegy.html feeds@yuku.com (Joe) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3648 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:17:47 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3635/t/pightle.html
www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/Default.htm ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ElizaD) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3635 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:43:04 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3650/t/gymkhana-origin.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3650 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:28:09 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3638/t/The-Coast-is-Clear.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3638 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:59:10 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3647/t/aftermath.html feeds@yuku.com (Joe) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3647 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:50:35 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3660/t/put-on-the-long-finger.html feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3660 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:51:00 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3652/t/try-and.html
When did "try to" get butchered thus?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3652 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:38:48 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3649/t/Guadalcanal.html feeds@yuku.com (WlmJames) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3649 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:10:02 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3639/t/Fuckin-Freakin-A.html feeds@yuku.com (rufio(d)) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3639 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:55:31 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3659/t/Noise-and-News.html
Here's the question. line in the King James Version is, "it was noised that Jesus was in the house." The Greek there is akoustos FWIW. Shakespeare uses the noun as a verb in the same way in, I think, three places.

Then news can also be used as a transitive or intransitive verb. Hence... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jgorman64) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3659 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:06:39 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3640/t/smell-from.html "I never liked him [the mortician]. He always smelled from formaldehyde."

Is this regional (NY)? Would definitely be "of" to me...tho I can think of a few contexts where one could indeed say "smell from", especially if there's an article in there: "I smell from the formaldehyde I was using".

Little blurry on the diff atm, but I definitely would use "of" in the original quote.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3640 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:38:23 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3653/t/sailor-s-handpipe.html
What exactly is a "sailor's handpipe"? [I have a particular image in mind, but haven't googled up confirmation yet.]

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3653 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:13:40 GMT http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3633/t/take-the-gas-pipe.html
In a third usage, it sounds like "take the gas plank". This makes less sense to me, but is there something to it? Or have I just misheard "gas pipe"?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (wordgeek) http://wordoriginsorg.yuku.com/topic/3633 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:56:37 GMT