I am fascinated by the way language shapes people's thinking. Differences in languages fascinate me, and I love to learn about the history of my own language.
I have found a most excellent assortment of essays on words at Dr Bill Long's site. This was the only site that came up in Google to give me the origin of the original phrase; "Give him an inch and he'll take an Ell", where an ell is a unit of length approximately 45". A saying is obviously more effective when exaggerated :)
Another one of my favorite sites is the source of my phrase a week.
We may be what we eat, but we are usually judged by what we say ;)
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