You can also have aphereis if you go to the blood bank. They centrifuge out the red blood cells and return them to you. They bag the yellow platelets.
Grant Barrett said: At one time, a boner was a mistake. And now, it's — you know. Beware of that outdated usage, grownups!
Yeah, and at one time, the term woody meant a vehicle with real wood exterior panels.
And before that, it was a synonym for "wooded."
Ngrams says its usage has leveled off since the 40s-50s (the heyday of wood paneled vehicles).
There's a rule for the pronunciation of the word "the." If it's followed by a word whose first letter is a vowel, sticklers say it should be pronounced like "/thee/," as in, the end. If followed by a consonant, it rhymes with "duh," as in "the dog". That's thuh long and thuh short of it.
I first learned this rule back in Elementary School - specifically in select chorus. It's a very clear memory. We were learning about singing syllables, and how important it was that were were all singing on the same vowel, and someone asked about when to sing "thee" versus "thuh." And that's when Ms. Rapkin taught us this rule.
Haven't posted anything in a long while ^_^ I'm so happy for that old, old "kromka" as a Polish term shout out.
There is one context where the rule of pronunciation for "the" is religiously followed - and preached, and that is English as a Second Language. In every English Language classroom outside the native English speaking zone you will be taught this rule at the very beginning of your schooling. It's all part of the "th-" allophones pronunciation, which is not at all easy for people who don't have it in their mother tongues, and part of the great obligatory article tirade (to my mind there's way too much time spent on such a petty and instinctively-mastered rule, but hey, it's just me). And as foreigners we are also taught one more exception: all words baginning with "u-" can be preceded with "the" in whichever pronunciation, emphasis or no, due to "u's" phonetic status (referring to the "j" semivowel preceding the "u" in pronunciation).
Also, English students throughout the world also get chewed up over the initial "kn-"/"gn-" pronunciation/spelling, too ^_^.
Also about the call about telling the time. The grammatical construcion of "It's X (minutes) of Y(hours)" as in "It's 20 (minutes) of six (hours)" looks very much like, indeed it looks like a calque of the russian syntactic construction for telling the time. In Russian one would say "20 (минут) шеÑтого" ("шеÑтого" means the "six" marked with possessive). And that's standard, casual way of telling time. I would not be surprised at all to find that it actually is some sort of a syntactic calque brought over by Russian immigrants way back when.
Did the show not already cover the names for the individual toes? I'm sure I remember Latin terms derived from "little piggy who went to market", etc.
In any event, the Scandinavian versions reminded me of one from my own infancy (not that I recall it from then, but from being told about it a few years later) for the facial features. The grown-up would point to each part of the child's face calling out its name: "Fore bumper" (the forehead), "eye winker" (right eye), "Tom Tinker" (left eye), "nose smeller", "mouth eater", "chin chopper", and finally "gullygullygullygullygully" (tickling the throat up and down).
Come to think of it, they never paid anything close to the same amount of attention to our toes.