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Dec 19, 2014 · The figure of Kris Kringle has lurked in German American folklore since the early 1800s, but the name "Kris Kringle" has had many antecedents, including Christ-kindel, Christ-kinkle, Krischtkintle, Christkingle, Chryskingle, Grisht-kindle, kriskinckles, Kriss Kringle, and Krist Kringle.
Dec 19, 2013 · The monicker Father Christmas competes with Saint Nicholas, and is a more popular than either Kris Kringle or Saint Nick. Traditionalist can argue about whether it should be, but in the United States, Santa Claus and Father Christmas are both the mythologized historical Saint Nicholas.
Mar 28, 2016 · Thanks, Hugh Meyers. I just checked The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1989), which devotes more than 1½ pages to fungo, including coverage of five theories of its origin, without reaching any definitive conclusions: the 'fun/go' theory, the fungible theory, the fungus theory, the fangen theory, and the (Scots) fung theory.
Dec 26, 2014 · 1809, "first weekday after Christmas," on which postmen and others expect to receive a Christmas present, originally in reference to the custom of distributing the contents of the Christmas box, which was placed in the church for charity collections. See box (n.1). The custom is older than the phrase. However, most of the other sources say that ...
1. Americana is the feminine form of Americano. It sounds to be an Italian form of the word America which is a name for inhabitant or the native of the land. In Italian the plural form is Americane. In Spanish the plural form is Americanas. – Manoochehr. Feb 4, 2011 at 9:37. In Italian, americana is both adjective and noun; it is not the ...
Apr 22, 2017 · @JanusBahsJacquet Very true, we talk ask about dry spells in that way. However "a spell of" something or "a <something> spell" seems different from "taking a spell at" or "spelling someone" since the duration of the first two is unknown and not under the individual's control but in the second the duration is either known from the start or is under the individual's control.
Jan 21, 2017 · An early metaphorical use of 'top flight' and one early literal sense of the term. An Elephind newspaper database search finds instances of top flight going back to the middle of the nineteenth century.
Sep 27, 2010 · I'm quite unsure regarding the usage of single quotation marks (') and double quotation marks (") in English. I had thought that double quotation marks were usually used to quote sentences from pa
Oct 16, 2012 · @Lynn: Here’s one taken at random from ‘Europe: A History’, a magisterial academic work by the eminent historian Norman Davies: ‘Mozart thrived in the relaxed social climate of the 1780s, which the growth of the “opera buffa” reflected.
4. In Ryan and Jetha's Sex at Dawn (2010, Ch. 5), they suggest that both 'jism' and 'jazz' come from the Ki-Kongo word dinza, meaning "to ejaculate", citing Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit (1984) and Ventura's essay "Hear that Long Snake Moan" (1986). Culturally, rooting this word in an African language seems more likely to me than ...
