Current federal law provides employers with a 5.4 percent FUTA tax credit. However, due to Californiaâs outstanding federal loan, the FUTA tax credit was reduced to 5.1 percent for the 2011 tax year, 4.8 percent for the 2012 tax year, 4.5 percent for the 2013 tax year, 4.2 percent for the 2014 tax year, and 3.9 percent for the 2015 tax year.
History for gossip. At first the word gossip, from Old English godsibb, meant âgodparent.â Later it came to mean âclose friendâ as well. Close friends, of course, share secrets. Gossip has come to mean anyone, friend or not, who shares the secrets of others.
Word Origin and History for wist Expand v. to know (archaic), c.1500, from Old English past tense of witan to know (cf. German wusste, past tense of wissen to know); see wit. Had-I-wiste was used c.1400-1550 in sense regret for something done rashly or heedlessly; see wist. Proverbial in expression Had-I-wiste cometh ever too late. Haddywyst comyth euer to late Whan lewyd woordis beth owte y-spronge.