[Good First Issue]: Add New Dialect Entry 65 - Beginner-Friendly Contribution (good-first-issue)
Insistence on well rather than good has resulted in a split in connotation: Well is standard, neutral, and colorless, while good is emotionally charged and emphatic. Good news from the hospital.
Used when saying goodbye to someone.. 6 days agogood (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded) (now chiefly dialectal) (intransitive) to thrive; Well is the adverb form of good.
He is a good baseball player. The word "good" is a rich term with layers of meaning that is used extensively in daily communication to convey positive affirmations.