Our constant companion, Ngrams Viewer, shows"view "THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA" is one of the earliest places where "Proof o...
RobertB said One benefit of circling: so all the wagons can share a fire in the middle and socialize. Again, there's no evidence that's a common pra...
Heavy-laden wagons are neither very quick nor very manouverable. If I came under attack, I'd rather stop in my tracks. Sitting up on top of the wago...
Meredith Willson was born in Iowa, worked in NYC, served in the military and lived in Ca;ifornia. No telling where that came from. It didn't appe...
Louis Dearborn L;Amour supposedly was very careful with factual details in his stories. If he has a character walk a trail, not only does the trail e...
You have to successfullyimpeach him before you can start the ouster proceedings. Guy in a diner points to a sign, tells the waitress he's like to o...
1 is OK. 2. 2. A is correct. You are exhausted, rather than your arrival. Of you were to be searching, you might be exhausted (having used up yo...
Glucophage is pronounced glue-c-fahj. I would use the fahj pronunciation,but I've heard few peope say it. I've never encountered phage by itself. Y...
Wherever you go, the BBC, your local paper, France 24, etc., etc. the context indicates that “impeach” is synonymous with “oust.” Perhaps where YOU...
You should be aware that the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News. The Economist isn't particularly literate, eithe...
You real8za that there is a difference between being indicted and beng convicted, right? If you are indicted, the grand jury has found there is suffi...
Impeach means more than "accuse". It's pretty close to "indict". When one impeaches a witness, one presents evidence that the testimony is invalid...
Carriages aren't necessarily for people. The trucks of railroad cars are carriages. (The phrase truck of a railroad car is, admittedly, going to cau...
My first thought, in hearing shopping carts called "wagons" was "How silly! A wagon is something that is pulled!" But that's absurd. A cart has only...
My math teacher's daughter could have used a Trojan. Or not. He seemed like a jerk to me but he seems to have treated her well, and the kid turned...