In modern Swedish, "dal" is a valley, or relatively low land. "dell" and "dale" are likely related.
Regarding words and phrases that can be alternate synonyms with similar meanings, such as likely/liable, soon/directly, to court/to date, etc., it's o...
I'm also very skeptical of on-line dictionaries-- they don't appear to be edited or maintained at all. Makes me wonder who is adding the words, defini...
Dictionaries just show us the range of possible usages and meanings, etc. for particular words across the English speaking world. I guess you'd have t...
re. "liable to": My grandparents and all my Texas relatives of their generation also used "liable to" to mean "likely to". They pronounced "liable"...
As several posters confirm above, using "like" in this way is not really an "irregular use of like" (as in "I like you")-- rather, it is a regional pr...