The image to the right speaks louder than words about the remarkable story of the striker known Bebe, who, as his friends attested yesterday, is still coming to terms with the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson has just spent £7m on acquiring his services.
Phrase root hog or die "work or fail" first attested 1834, American English (in works of Davey Crockett, who noted it as an "old saying").
Not today – as the 1,350,000 views that the John Lewis ad had racked up on YouTube by yesterday evening will attest – today, we must admit that we are interested in the ads for their own sake.
Oxford University Press, September 2015) and is attested from 1607.
Early Northwest Semitic (ENWS) materials are attested from 2350 BCE to 1200 BCE, the end of the Bronze Age.
Nothing spiked so spectacularly in 2014 to make "exposure", first attested in 1606, feel particularly representative of the year.Merriam-Webster, a dictionary publisher, chose a similar path, choosing a plain old word to sum up 2014: "culture".
The last known dean, William, is attested in 1269, and another dean was in possession by 24 May 1275, but the name of this dean is not known.
And then there's "skeezicks," a fine old Americanism for a troublemaker, attested from 1850.
If we take the Latinate approach à la avuncular, then the Oxford English Dictionary provides materteral, attested since 1823 in humorous use, meaning "characteristic or typical of an aunt".
(Anderson) ★ Erasure (Tuesday and Wednesday) This British synth-pop duo parses reedy vocals over a terse electronic clip; the combination can be surprisingly romantic, as its hit single "Always" attested in 1994.
Although early temples in south India may have been made of disposable materials as early as the first few centuries of the Common Era, permanent temple structures appear about the 3rd and 4th centuries, as attested in early Tamil literature.
