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“Foot the bill” means to pay the full cost. The phrase likely comes from bookkeeping, where the total was written at the foot of a bill.

Stereotype first referred to a printing plate used for repeated copies. Later it came to mean a fixed, oversimplified idea about a group.

Prodigy means an exceptionally talented person. Progeny means descendants or offspring. Here is how to use each one clearly.

“Forecastle” was shortened in sailors’ speech over time, so its spelling stayed old while its pronunciation became much shorter.