I have been singing a lot of children's songs lately, and this afternoon in the car I noticed three songs that add an -o to the end of words:
"He had many a mile to go that night before he reached the town-o" from The Fox (no relation)
"A rare bog, the rattlin' bog, the bog down in the vall...
I don’t think anybody quite knows. The OED gives four distinct types of these formations. They are wondering whether it has something to do with the O interjection with some reinforcement from similar words. They also note that it is nowhere more common than in Australia.
The four different t...
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Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) gave its name to the computer adventure game genre. It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. The Colossal Cave subnetwork has many entrances, one of which is known as Bedquilt. Crowther reproduced portions of the real cave so faithfully that cavers who have played the game can easily navigate through familiar sections in the Bedquilt region on their first visit.
History
Will Crowther was a programmer a...
Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content. Rogue popularized dungeon crawling as a video game trope, leading others to develop a class of derivatives known collectively as "roguelikes". For example, it directly inspired Hack, which in turn led to NetHack. Roguelikes have since influenced commercial games outside the genre, such as Diablo.
Gameplay
In Rogue, the player assumes the typical role of an adventur...
NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack (), which is a descendant of Rogue (). NetHack is licensed under the NetHack General Public License.
The "net" element references the fact that its development was coordinated through Usenet, even before the internet existed in its present form. The "hack" element refers to the game it was based on, Hack. The player takes the part of a dungeon-delving character in search of the Amulet of Yendor.
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Which usage is correct?
You shouldn't take sugar, should you?
You shouldn't take sugar, will you?
The program must check the latest date in which data has been procured and then update the database accordingly.
Is the above sentence correct.
I still use the expression 'Good-oh!' to express approval or agreement, I suspect not many do nowadays. I always felt that the '-o' added to words, especially in songs, was the same as '-oh'. But it's only a feeling.
I was about to create a folder to keep an archive my important files in. This question got stuck in my mind while renaming it.
How do I have to rename that folder?
Back up
Backup
Back-up
Are all phrases correct?
I'm going through some code with classes named like:
clean_Cache
purge_Stage
do_Keywords
The particular file do_Keywords is a complete mess and maybe if I knew what it was supposed to do then I could make sense of it. The dev who wrote it and used the verb "do" is absent, probably from someon...
In linguistics, a light verb is a verb that has little semantic content of its own and it therefore forms a predicate with some additional expression, which is usually a noun. Common verbs in English that can function as light verbs are do, give, have, make, take, etc. Other names for light verb include vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb or semantically weak verb (a semantically weak verb is not to be confused with a weak verb of the Germanic weak inflection, however). While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their meaning contribution to the clauses in which they app...
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According to Wikipedia, do in your example can be properly described as a light verb.
A light verb is a verb that has little semantic content of its own and it therefore forms a predicate with some additional expression, which is usually a noun.
Example:
I do the house cleaning. (light ...
What is it called if I have a good social condition (education, money, etc.) and I disrespect people with a lower condition?
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