Timeline for The meaning of 'over' in 'Over at the cash desk'
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| May 13, 2017 at 8:04 | vote | accept | Yuri | ||
| Mar 21, 2016 at 15:29 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 13:22 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:44 | answer | added | Ricky | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:28 | comment | added | Lacklub | I suspect this originally came about from having things like hills between you and your destination. If there was a hill between here and the other side of town, you would need to go over it. Hence "Bill lives over [the hill] on the other side of town". It has since become a generic filler word though. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:21 | comment | added | Kinzle B | I'd say no. No emphasis intended. Like Will said, it's just a filler word. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:16 | comment | added | Yuri | @William Kappler Thanks that's a relief then I suppose 😃. and Kinzle on the other side of town implies the distance ofcourse that's why it's the OTHER side of town.Is over used for emphasis here? | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:05 | comment | added | user15474 | It doesn't do much. It's usually a filler word unless it's attached to something else that gives it meaning. Like "over the walkway" or "over the ocean". I have no idea why we say that. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 12:03 | comment | added | Kinzle B | Over implies a little or some distance away from the speaker or the hearer, as in over there / over here. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 11:58 | history | asked | Yuri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |