Prithee the addressee, as in "if it please you," "prithee" accompanies a request which addresses itself to the threat of being answered in the negative, as though the request were against the addressee's wishes. Stated otherwise, the word "please" suggests that the person being addressed is willing to comply with the request, whereas the word "prithee" suggests that he or she is not willing. This switch from stating the speaker's contrary desire to stating the speaker's wish not to impose signaled a cultural shift in the English-speaking world in which politeness became stated negatively rather than positively. Wider repercussions are observable
Geliyard, Alborz land of Gil people. Geliyard, Alborz Geliyard (, also Romanized as Gelīyard) is a village in Bala Taleqan Rural District, in the Central District of Taleqan County, Alborz Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 232, in 42 families. The village is the birthplace of Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani. The word "Geliyard" or "Giliyard" derives from Gil, which is the name of an ancient ethnicity in Medes united confederation, and were the ancestors af today Gilaks. The "-ard" also is the suffix of location which means milieu or territory, and derives from the Avestan word of "Ard" which means