Language Goes The Whole 9 Yards With Workaday Words
Each week in this space, I strive to go the whole nine yards to entertain and enlighten you about our glorious, uproarious, courageous, contagious, stupendous, end-over-endous English language. But what is the source of the phrase the whole nine yards, which means “the whole shootin’ match,” “whole hog,” “the whole ball of wax”? The fact […]