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etymology - What is the origin of the term woo? - English Language . . . Secondly, woo is the shortened form, and it is also written as woo-woo and woo woo Wiktionary says of its origin that it might be “intended to imitate the eerie background music of sci-fi horror films and television shows, however the exact origin is uncertain” Indeed, if you do a Google Books search for “woo woo”, all the hits refer
How do you spell hoo-wee! - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Woo and woo-hoo (and variations like yahoo, yee-haw, and yippee) indicate excitement (Woot, also spelled w00t among an online in-crowd, is a probably ephemeral variant ) In the same vein, if you write it and it looks right in an echomimetic way, it probably will serve its purpose just fine, and only the most pedantic reader is going to lose
How to represent an English police siren sound in writing? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
Onomatopoeia for sirens (police, ambulance, fire engines) Wee woo: is the sound a siren makes It is used in jest, to make fun of police cars, fire engines, ambulances, anything with a siren, really Popularized by short films Anyway I don't think there is an 'official' one
shakespeare - Whats the meaning of I am well - English Language . . . Figuratively it means "I'll not try to woo her or seek her hand" (Some later readers imagine this is cheapen as in "make worth less" applied to ideas of the value of chastity in a woman—which is after all made more of later in this play—and so see an irony in this coming in response to his insistence that any woman he might fall in love
Which is correct — a year or an year? [duplicate] For the word 'year' to be preceded by 'an' it must sound like it's beginning with a vowel The reason why it is a tad tricky is because of the difference in the way people pronounce it
u and uː in pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Never thought of send as being [sɛːnd], but I see what you mean BTW, in my native accent, route rhymes with shout not boot so is [raʊt] not [ruːt], and root rhymes with foot not with boot, so is [rʊt] not [ruːt]
Why are Leicester co pronounced as they are? => M---m-M--- (WOO'ste'SHier) Another phenomenon is the metathesis of multiple single syllable words into one word group to be pronounced as if they were a single word conforming to the three syllable patterns
Whispering sweet nothings - English Language Usage Stack Exchange (idiomatic) Insubstantial or romantic words that are only meant to flatter, woo, or seduce Examples of usage: 1904, George Gissing, Veranilda, ch 28: Hearing such words as these, in the sweetest, tenderest voice that ever caressed a lover's senses, Basil knew not how to word all that was in his heart