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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
- Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US?
Both "w " and "w o" were common U S abbreviations in correspondence, and in tight spots on data tables, until recently
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- Is there a common abbreviation for with or without? e. g. w wo or w w o
Yes, in the right context it should be pretty easy to deduce Salad dressing recipes (or any recipes) for which the ingredients may include controversial items such as anchovies, or very spicy ingredients; will often have the potentially offensive ingredients listed as optional
- verbs - What did make love mean in the 1920s? - English Language . . .
For more than four hundred years, to make love (to) had a more “courtly” meaning: “to pay amorous attention (to)”, “to court, woo”, according to the 1908 printing of the New English Dictionary (NED) Typical examples given in that work: 1605 [SHAKS ] Macb III i 124 Thence it is That I to your assistance doe make loue
- What are the words to express sobbing and crying sound?
Google doesn't help much What are the sounds (written in words) that people usually use to express their crying sobbing emotions such as in chat, social network? For example if I say, "I am sad [
- 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
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