Language History

language-and-communication

The phrase “now you see me, now you don’t” describes something that appears and disappears or changes suddenly and unpredictably. Its core imagery comes from magic perform...

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language-and-grammar

‘What is ye doing now’ is an archaic or dialectal way of asking ‘what are you doing now.’ The pronoun ‘ye’ was the standard second-person plural in Early Modern Engl...

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