[lit-ideas] Re: vocative particles

There's also the New Orleans "oi," as in "doity" for "dirty." Where did THAT 
one come from?
Carol




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> Sunday, January 30, 2005, 9:12:30 AM, Michael Chase wrote:
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> MC> M.C. Among my list of OY's, I forgot to mention the Cockney Oy! 
> which=20
> MC> is more or less equivalent to Hey! I suspect this is unrelated to 
> the=20
> MC> Yiddish, but it may be the source - through 70's punk-rock groups? - 
> of=20=
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> MC> its use in the Americas.
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> There's also the "Catherine Zeta Jones oi"  which is I suspect not
> really Welsh, but taken from the Cockney.
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