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Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention? The Oxford English Dictionary dates yoo-hoo to 1924, as noted by the American Dialect Society, and compares it to yo-ho, originally a nautical phrase also sometimes used in yo-heave-ho Their first documented use of yo-ho is from 1769 in William Falconer's An universal dictionary of the marine: Hola-ho, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe Yo-ho derives from two interjections Yo: an exclamation of
Boo as a term of endearment - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Here's an instance of "Boo Boo" as a pet name or term of endearment from The Martin Marauder and the Franklin Allens: A Wartime Love Story, published in 1980 but presented in the form of letters written in the early 1940s—long before Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear The Hathi Trust edition of the book refers to the contents as having been "collected" by three people—so it may really by from the
Onomatopoeia for sirens (police, ambulance, fire engines) 3 I like the one suggested by the UD: 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
Fall, fell, felled - English Language Usage Stack Exchange How is the causative form of fall used in English? In the present tense, often enough, A tree falls in the woods, but a logger falls trees as well but in the past tense, A tree fell in the woo
Why are there 3 different ways to pronounce oo? woo- This isn’t a useful class of words to memorize, but they’re interesting in terms of etymology The sequence wu is uncommon in English spelling (the letter w, as its name implies, used to be written as two u’s, which makes “wu” the awkward sequence uuu ) Consider the spelling of the word “wolf” wʊlf < OE wulf
Someone who instigates conflict and then plays the victim? Is there a word for someone who always tends to be the catalyst to conflict, then backs out of said conflict with a victim mentality? For example provoking an argument and then saying something lik