[lit-ideas] Re: vocative particles
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:18:14 +0000
Sunday, January 30, 2005, 9:12:30 AM, Michael Chase wrote:
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=
MC> its use in the Americas.
There's also the "Catherine Zeta Jones oi" which is I suspect not
really Welsh, but taken from the Cockney.
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