Nov 27, 2018 · The author of a book I'm working on insists that a ladle, a serving spoon for soup or stew, is spelled laddle. A quick Google search pulled results of ladle, but most shopping sites and …

Jul 30, 2022 · 1 From ladle to ladle, From verb to verb It was verbing/verbification when it was verbed/verbified. The noun ladle was verbed to the verb ladle long time ago, as early as 1525 per …

Nov 17, 2021 · Now imagine a lid floating on the liquid. That prevents you removing liquid with a ladle, cup, or siphon. The lid represents the policy of not reducing the staff by redundancy or dismissal. As …

Words that in Modern English are written ending with -le derive from words ending in -el, -el- or are related with such words. candle Old English candel cattle Anglo-Norman catel ladle Old English …

Sep 30, 2013 · I have brought you a ladle. —Marlowe's Jew of Malta, III. 4. Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. — [Shakespeare's] Comedy of Errors, IV. 3. >This is a devil and …

Blah, as suggested by the Wiktionary has an uncertain origin: Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Perhaps, but cf Greek "barbarbar” ‘unintelligible s...

Depends on the context. Imagine the sentence doesn't have quotes: According to Fred, astrophysics is a rapidly growing field. You can substitute "Fred" for anything, including some title. Note that the …

Dec 24, 2013 · A dictionary says that Hello could be a verb, noun and interjection. I'm not sure I saw it to be a verb though. Q: Could someone provide an example of 'hello' where it's used as verb. In the …

I am a bit unsure about how the word "motherload" should be seen – as a common mistake or slang word or both. I've encountered the word the first time in a recent Guardian article, but to my surpri...

May 16, 2012 · Before toilet paper and Sears catalogs, there was a wooden spatula called the stick. If you were in the outhouse after dark and you had to find the stick in the dark, you had a good chance …