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...

According to Etymonline,LukeJavan8 is almost correct. "hash" is a shortened form of "hashish" which in turn derives from Arabic (not Farsi) "hashish" https://www.etymonline.com/word/hashish It is etymologically related to "assassin" https://www.etymonline.com/...

For a tiny little two-letter word, we expect "as" to do a lot of work. The dictionaries say it can function as an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition and a pronoun. Audiendus and Slava post the following sentences for our consideration, numbered here for our convenience. 1) There was a he...

Slava, can you either give us information about that Christmas Carol? The title or quote the whole verse? I've never heard the carol and the internet couldn't find it for me.

You'll be pleased to know I am now getting "Word of the Day" email regularly. Thank for all your efforts.

It seems to me that some of the elements in this sentence have suffered an interesting metathesization:
"The rrecently oot of this word was mentioned as also underlying . . . ."
Did you intend to write "The root of this word was recently mentioned as also underlying . . . ."

Dr Goodword says "subterfuge" is a mass noun with no plural. Yet in his "In play" section, his second example, "TV commercials resort to many subterfuges to entice viewers to buy the products they advertise," he uses it in the plural. If it were a mass noun wouldn't it ...

Back in 2006, the Good Doctor said that "bricolage" would make a good word of the day as it is a word with an interesting story (origin myth?). But it hasn't run yet. According to Merriam Webster the first known use of bricolage is 1960 and it denotes a "construction (as of a sculptur...

The dictionaries (both US and British) partially support you on "confidante." They include a usage note saying something like "usually a woman."

Also please see my note on "anymore" added to the "Is he a Realtor anymore" thread.