Aug 21, 2011 · What, if any, is the right way to use "and lo" in a sentence? My basic structure is " [discussion about thing], and lo, [example of thing]", kind of like: There's a cliche about circus clowns …

According to the OED, in Middle English there are two distinct words "lo" or "loo" which have fallen together; one of them is indeed derived from a form of "look", but the other "lá, an exclamation …

Nov 15, 2010 · I think Wiktionary is plain wrong on the etymology here. At least I'm not following how they get from "The lo from the expression likely originated from the shortening of the word loke [, a …

13 Historically, “lo!”, isn’t expressive of any particular emotion (alas) or addressed to any particular person (dude), and it's not an all-purpose interjection (Hey). It expressly calls upon hearers to look at, …

Aug 23, 2023 · But I found the structure unusual because "lo+adjective" itself serves as a noun, which is another grammar in Spanish, but the adjective/adverb in the subordinate clause serve as a …

When writing an instruction about connecting to a computer using ssh, telnet, etc., I'm not sure what spacing to use in this familiar spoken phrase: "Log in to host.com" "Log into host.com" "Login to

Sep 11, 2023 · In Spanish, there's the expression ¡no escupas para arriba! (literally ‘don't spit upwards!’), which is used for example in counter-reprimanding or counter-criticizing …

Jun 23, 2024 · When saying the word for the SI/metric unit of long distances, the majority of the population pronounce "kilometre/kilometer" as "klomitr", akin to how words like " baromet...

Apr 4, 2014 · Searching Google books, I find that what the phrase originally meant in the 17th and 18th centuries was that "A loves B just as much as B loves A "; the amount of love is balanced, so there is …

Nov 23, 2023 · tech|nolo¦gies Note there's no break after “techno” despite the Greek root téchnē. Why? Could we kindly ask for an explanation of the hyphenation here? Note that The Oxford spelling …