![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'burn.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. The myth of why it happens has several explanations: Some say the left ear burns when you are the subject of good conversations others say it’s the right ear. 2023 Maui hospitals are overwhelmed with patients suffering burns and smoke inhalation. When your ear starts burning, it means someone is talking about you. ![]() 2023 At least 25% of the burn area has been canvassed by search and rescue teams with cadaver dogs, Maui officials said Monday. 2023 The Maui wildfire death toll is currently hovering at 99 people, but officials worry that number will climb, given that only 25% of the burn area has been searched. ![]() Reis Thebault and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023 Neighbors and firefighters, who were toward the end of their most harrowing shift, used hoses from surrounding houses and doused the area, eventually stopping the burn. 2023 The organization also shared another post about a cat who suffered burns from the wildfires. 2023 Cadaver-detecting dogs have begun searching the burn zone but had been able to cover only about 3% of the area as of Saturday, officials said. Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023 Search and recovery crews using cadaver dogs had scoured approximately 38% of the burn area by Tuesday, officials said. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. Noun That risk is highest when the other building that burns is 30 feet away or less, said Stephen Quarles, UC Cooperative Extension advisor emeritus. 2023 The Lost Horse Creek Fire has been burning north of Fairbanks since July 28. Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Aug. Sunburn Sunburn is one of the most common reasons that your ears might feel hot or burn. 2023 This year’s fires have burned twice as much land in the country as any previous season - an area equivalent to Alabama. 2023 The data, current as of August 9, show the 10-year average of area burned to date sits at just over 2 million hectares. Todd Robinson, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023 The exterior stairs to my second-story office above the garage were gone, having burned into the walls, disintegrating the studs. 2023 But the homes of his uncle, grandfather and other relatives who live nearby were burned. 2023 Officials in the province expanded the order late Friday after declaring a state of emergency in Kelowna, a city of some 150,000 residents, as well as in nearby West Kelowna, where an approaching fire burned houses and woodland. 2023 Several other fires started in other parts of Washington state on Friday afternoon, including a blaze near the town of Elk, which burned at least 30 structures. Otherwise we might have been talking about flickering right eyes when friends are expected to visit or pricking in the left thumb when something bad is about to happen.įrom my dabbles on Google, I’ve found that the idea that you sneeze when someone talks about you is found in Japan, Vietnam and Greece and you cough in Afghanistan.Verb Close to 400 active fires are still burning across British Columbia. Unfortunately, expressions surrounding other bodily sensations didn’t stand the test of time. This idea has thrived over the years and the expression can be found in many works of English literature, from Chaucer to Dickens. He goes on to say that a sensation in the right ear means the talk is positive while if the left ear burns, the subject is of evil intent. During ancient times, signs like sensations in the ears were considered significant to augurs, Roman officials who interpreted omens for guidance in public affairs.Īccording to Pliny, ‘It is acknowledged that the absent feel a presentiment of remarks about themselves by the ringing of their ears’. The idea that someone’s ears are burning goes back to the Romans and is first attested in 77AD, in Pliny’s ‘Natural History’. The British equivalent is: his ears must be burning. ![]() What they had both done, and understood each other perfectly when doing it, was to adapt the phrase of their own culture to the international, English conversation, to suggest that somewhere the friend must have felt that we were talking about him. ![]() Why should our absent friend be coughing or sneezing? As far as I was aware, he wasn’t ill. Then the Bangladeshi added, ‘Yes, he must be sneezing’. After talking about an absent friend, the Estonian said, ‘He must be coughing now’. I stumbled across my chosen word story for e by chance in a conversation with some international friends last weekend. ![]()
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