Posted on 10/05/05
SOCIAL STUDIES
As you jolly well like it"Although hardly a bride or groom realizes it today," writes linguistician Guy Deutscher in The Unfolding of Language, "the original sense of the promise 'I will' was simply 'I want to' love, cherish [etc.]. But when one wants to do something it often implies one jolly well will. So 'will' underwent a process rather like 'going to' and eventually ended up as a future auxiliary."
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