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"Montblack" wrote:

("Smitty" wrote)
Uh, actually, "hear hear" is correct.


http://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84mcourt.phtml
Here ye, here ye!

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrgs/hearye/
Hear Ye Hear Ye

Which is correct? Why? Curious.


Montblack

Imagine it's 150 years ago. (For you youngsters, that would put us way
back in pre-internet days, when people conversed instead of pecking.)
We're sitting around enjoying some refreshing non-alcoholic beverages
and talking about various things. Some brilliant thinker among us begins
to orate in a particularly eloquent fashion. More and more people break
from individual, localized conversation to listen to the man (or woman)
speak. To encourage serious attention and to show his support for the
ideas being presented, a listener pipes up with the admonition "Listen
to the man speak, my friends. What astounding thoughts he has, and so
well spoken." In other words, "Hear, Hear!"