"[Gandalf] answered 'Hidden somewhere ahead of us is the fair valley of Rivendell where Elrond lives in the Last Homely House. I sent a message by my friends, and we are expected.' That sounded nice and comforting, but . . . it was not so easy as it sounds to find the Last Homely House west of ...

Dr. Goodword, Hygge has appeared in The New Yorker several times. First appearance was in 1957 (!) in a "Letter from Copenhagen" In 2016, The New Yorker reports that "hygge" was a runner-up for Oxford English Dictionies' Word of the Year. In 2017, it appeared three times, one inc...

Cassation in the legal sense and in the musical sense appear to be an example of convergent evolution. Merriam Websters says in the legal sense Middle English cassacioun, from Middle French cassation, from casser to annul + -ation in the musical sense German kassation, from German dialect (originall...

There is a difference between the orthographic representation of today Good Word (ee-tee-ê-layt) and the aural presentation at the "hear it" link According to the alphadictionary pronunciation guide (https://www.alphadictionary.com/pronunciation_guide.html) "t" is what the IPA ca...

call_copse, may I edit your sentence?
Ah, those innocent days when a scandal was just about a few people betraying us . . . .
LukeJavan8, What is the "PM section"?

Also from the same root: fascia/fasciae, the medical term for a sheet of tissue that envelops, separates or holds together muscles or organs or other soft structures in the body.

Does anyone remember the General Petraeus scandal?

Interesting re-analysis/folk etymology suggesting that the vowels in "fell" and "foul" are becoming more similar in the Australian dialect while the evil meaning of fell is becoming remote to modern speakers.

Today, enophiles are well aware of the fact that "Hermitage" is not a grape variety but a wine producing region in the Rhone Valley. According to "Wines and Vineyards of France" (Larousse), the red wines of Hermitage are made entirely from the Syrah grape variety while white wine...

The article at the link states SPIKE-BOZZLED Spike was used during the First World War to mean “to render a gun unusable." Yes, but I think the explanation is somewhat misleading: "spike"was in use long before World War I to mean "render a gun unusable." Ngram Viewer turns u...

Would you please provide the sentence for context or at least a link to the article?

Sorry, I can't help you with the syntax that is behind this expression. However, the Google Ngram viewer did not find many examples of "dismiss the service" quote 1 To DISMISS, to discard. To DIsMIss the service, (Congédier, Fr.) to take an officer's commission, or warrant from him From th...

Were it not for the rupestrinity of the publication of Ptolemy V's decree, it would not have endured for 1995 years and allowed scholars to begin to understand Egyptian hieroglyphics when the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799.

There is a detailed discussion here https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=uGs3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT149&lpg=PT149&dq=ʒ&source=bl&ots=UBS252Anaw&sig=JsJmc58DdSzM5GWhttxMDP73FNY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJobur6fvcAhUR7rwKHYC2BWM4MhDoATADegQIBxAB#v=onepage&q=ʒ&f=false Som...

The internet provided me with this link to a Guardian article that explains the significance of the act: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2016/may/02/obama-out-mic-drop-white-house-correspondents-dinner The article cites 1987 as the earliest use in print although the phrase clearly pred...