"This one goes to eleven"
(Or "These go to eleven"). This phrase has entered the lexicon after repeated use in movie and product reviews. After I read two recent reviews in which the phrase appeared, I came to Wordorigins to...
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It's easy, Eliza. I glaze this Eye with a bit of rum and cola. Works every time. After a while, even the single syllable letters start to get fuzzy.Yup, Dr., I'm with Lizzy on this one.And BTW, I have...
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VVell, every lavv has its loophole, for those vvho are vvily enough to find it.
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So, I'm not allowed to used W's. Or rather, not alloed to. That ould indeed be difficult, but I'm not sure it's my orst nightmare. You know, life's awfully hard for me sometimes. I do try - I really...
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I try to be accurate, and informative, and helpful, and to further the cause of well-researched etymology,See, that's the problem. It makes everyone jealous, and they start looking for a chance to...
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Assuming the 2x4s are still in Eliza's attic, I'm hoping that she either ignores the teasing, ignores us, or both.
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Actually, I thought it was a wonderful bit of hyperbole, even if unintentional. If Eliza disavows it, I plan to steal it.
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The SOED entry is under "eleven" adj. and n. Under the 5th sense, "a set of eleven, a thing having a set of eleven as an essential or distinguishing feature" it includes:up to eleven [with ref. to a...
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Thanks!And extra thanks to Dutchtoo for pointing to the PG Wodehouse book in which "letters of one syllable" appears. Though Eliza wasn't the first to coin the phrase, she can take comfort in knowing...
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DrT: "knowing that the one who beat her to it was one of the true masters of phrase-turning." Who better to know than a true (wode)housewife? ElizaD would know that when a collar frays it needs...
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The polysyllabic nature of W means that the 'abbreviation' www actually has three times as many syllables as the phrase it ostensibly abbreviates.This nugget of information may come in handy in a pub...
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That's annoyed me for a long time; it casts doubt on the whole idea of "abbreviation."
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it casts doubt on the whole idea of "abbreviation." Surely the idea of an abbreviation is to limit the space (translated in terms of paper, time, effort, layout, etc) occupied by a word or words....
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it casts doubt on the whole idea of "abbreviation."I also wondered about that, especially because in Dutch we can say very conveniently "way-way-way".
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www really is six-'u', I suppose. Or 'sex u', if you will.
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ellipsis1 a : the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete b : a sudden leap from one topic to another2 :...
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