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Counting in scores is not strictly the same phenomenon as the units-before-tens count, but does seem to share some of the same "flavour". It appears in formal speech in, for instance, the Gettysburg Address ("Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth ...") and in the biblical "three score years and ten" noted by @Benjol). In British ...

As requested, this is my summary translation of the answer by A.Stefanowitsch, the host of Sprachlog: 'seven-and-twenty years' corresponds to the original germanic pattern. In Old English this was the usual way of forming complex number words. The influence of Norman French brought in the modern form and displaced the original pattern, which survived ...

Johnny Carson, "What I Have Learned," 1991: “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he's upset, he's a mile away and you've got his shoes." Handey did start on SNL in 1991 but I don't know when/if he did this gag, which I've also seen attributed to Billy Connolly. I know about the Carson date because I was his head writer, ...

Well, I googled "never judge walk mile shoes mile away have his shoes handey" and got this, which says the quote is Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." – Jack Handey My technique was to specify a subset of the quote that I ...

Google works BEST always for me. :) especially their ngram. You can do all sort of stuff with it like their part of speech tags and even their different language tags. More info on ngram here. This is what Google says about it: When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a ...

“Keep it simple” […] try to stay with present simple and past simple tense is in general good advice; I imagine the reviewer isn't implying you can't use progressive and perfect constructions, but instead that they've noticed a problem with your use or overuse of progressive and perfect. (It is also possible the reviewer is merely trying to force his ...