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- pronunciation - Why is oh spelled oh and not o? - English . . .
There is no difference between the pronunciation of oh and o; in both the cases, the pronunciation is oʊ Oh is used to express surprise, anger, disappointment, or joy; it is also used when reacting to something just said Oh, shut up O is also an archaic spelling of oh; it was also used before a name in direct address Give peace in our
- Difference between OK and okay - English Language Usage Stack . . .
O K was probably the first spelling (and there are dozens of theories about its origin) OK is an obvious shortening, maybe by somebody who had only heard the phrase But ok would be something different, perhaps a small okapi That's what your spellchecker thought wasn't okay Edit: O K is pronounced 'okay', and so is OK
- Rule for the pronunciation of the letter O as ʌ vs. ɒ
Sometimes the letter o is redundant (country, southern, touch, young) or is accompanied by further irregularities (enough, hiccough, rough, slough, tough, one, once) There may be some words not on this list, but I would guess that the total number of words where O = ʌ , excluding inflected and derived forms like sponging and brotherhood
- Etymology for “Mc‑” and “O’‑” prefix in surnames
(What is true is that O' is almost exclusively Irish; despite the romantic notions we have of Scottish clans, they didn't use their clan affiliation in their names ) Edit: as for why the prefix is used even though the prefix-less names look perfectly fine on their own, this is basically Gaelic grammar and thus out of scope for this site
- Why are there 3 different ways to pronounce oo?
This o-sound is the origin of the spelling oo Middle English uː (usually spelled "ou" or "ow") mostly turned into the Early Modern English diphthong aʊ via the Great Vowel Shift However, before a labial consonant such as p f v m , this change was inhibited, and Middle English uː became Early Modern English uː , merging with
- meaning - XOXO means hugs and kisses but why? - English Language . . .
The use of O to mean a hug is believed to have arisen in North America Etymology Nerd and Mental Floss say that it was popularised by Jewish immigrants in the United States who refused to use the cross That article goes on to say that 'It could've been formed as a contrast to the x, or adopted because of an aesthetic similarity to what a hug
- orthography - How to specify the letter O, not a zero - English . . .
When listing by index letter, the convention is not to use upper- or lowercase letter O, (which, in some fonts, may be mistaken for zero) or uppercase I or lowercase letter l (which, in some fonts, may be mistaken for number 1 )
- What does O. G. stand for? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Currently reading "Slang for the ages It's swag bae," by Kory Stamper from International New York Times (October 6, 2014), I came across this acronym O G "It[swag]'s generally taken to be a shortened form of the verb "swagger," which was used to denote a certain insolent cockiness by William Shakespeare, O G " Definitions of O G
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