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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!" |
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