Pail, sad to say, is utterly lacking in this regard. EDIT: Taking a look through Google's N-Gram viewer, it's not hard to see why: This comparison of bucket and pail from 1800 till today shows the latter's usage diverging noticeably from the former's around the era of 1940–1960, to becoming a much less popular a synonym for the former ...

2010年12月6日 · From World Wide Words:. Pale is an old name for a pointed piece of wood driven into the ground and — by an obvious extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a palisade or fence.

2014年7月21日 · According to The Phrase Finder, it is a variation of ass end over teakettle and actually Ngran shows that its usage started a few years later.

2011年8月27日 · The origin comes from the Peter tax and the Paul tax:. The expression refers to times before the Reformation when Church taxes had to be paid to St. Paul's church in London and to St. Peter's church in Rome; originally it referred to neglecting the Peter tax in order to have money to pay the Paul tax.

2018年10月6日 · From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump'.

2019年12月22日 · When I was a kid in the 1960s we had both a trash can and a garbage pail, because, I think, the city collected them separately. Rubbish is mostly a British term. (I now live in a city where there are separate collections for trash, recyclables, food scraps for compost, and yard waste, but most American cities are doing well to separate trash ...

2017年10月8日 · I don't. The public does. Arguing 'X ought to be allowed by analogy with Y' soon brings you into trouble. Why don't we consider as standard 'John has sadly kicked the pail', 'a boat of the desert', 'Sibling Francis', 'personhunt', 'The Glasgow Kinship of ...

2023年2月18日 · Educational - means something that educates, and it is an adjective Education - is a noun. When used with objects as a determiner it means related to or about education.

I regard them as synonyms. However, there is a lexical difference. 'Seek' is a pure verb and 'look for' is a phrasal verb - a pure verb plus, in this case, a preposition.

2019年11月12日 · English got the word park from French parc and in Middle English it was spelled as both park and parc.Then English spelling standardized to only use park.