separate English interjections from the language's other lexical categories, such as nouns and verbs. Though English interjections, like interjections in general...
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contributed to the different perspectives of interjections in language throughout history. The Greeks held that interjections fell into the grammatical category...
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conjunctions into subordinators and coordinators, and add the class of interjections. English also has a rich set of auxiliary verbs, such as have and do, expressing...
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an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New...
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considered words, such as the English interjections of assent and denial, uh-huh /əˈhʌ/ and uh-uh /ˈʌʔə/, or the interjection of error, uh-oh /ˈʌʔoʊ/. Such...
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such as /pʃ/ (pshaw), /fw/ (fwoosh), or /vr/ (vroom), can occur in interjections. An archaic voiceless fricative plus nasal exists, /fn/ (fnese), as...
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see Lock–loch merger. This common English interjection is usually pronounced with [x] in unscripted spoken English, but it is most often read /ʌɡ/ or...
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Look up meh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meh is an English interjection expressing indifference or boredom. MEH or meh may refer to: "@ Meh", a...
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vowel sounds. There are very few lexical words (that is, not counting interjections) without vowel letters. The longest such lexical word is tsktsks, pronounced...
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use of period as an interjection meaning "and nothing else; end of discussion" is beginning to be used in colloquial British English, though sometimes without...
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adjectives, have not always been regarded as a separate part of speech. Interjections are another word class, but these are not described here as they do...
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Eh (category Interjections)
Similar interjections exist in many other languages, such as Azerbaijani and Italian and Dutch.[citation needed] The spelling of this sound in English is quite...
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Prithee (category Interjections)
prithee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prithee is an archaic English interjection formed from a corruption of the phrase pray thee ([I] ask you [to])...
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American mass media. Often speakers of this subvariety will use English interjections like "Oh my God", "man", "brother", "whatever", etc. in everyday...
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media help. Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of dialects of English native to the island...
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used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic...
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words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus...
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Yes and no (category Pages with non-English text lacking appropriate markup and no ISO hint)
relationship to the interjections oh and ah, which is that the interjections can precede yes and no but not follow them. Oh as an interjection expresses surprise...
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Meh (redirect from Feh (interjection))
Meh (/mɛ/) is a colloquial interjection used as an expression of indifference or boredom. It is often regarded as a verbal equivalent of a shrug of the...
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Spanish: [tʃe]; Portuguese: tchê [ˈtʃe]; Valencian: xe [ˈtʃe]) is an interjection commonly used in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil (São Paulo...
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("Hey" (へぇ, Hē) is the Japanese interjection for expressing genuine surprise, equivalent to a mix of the English interjections "Really?" and "Wow!".) The total...
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More, re, and bre (redirect from Mori (interjection))
More, re, and bre (with many variants) are interjections and/or vocative particles common to Albanian, Greek, Romanian, South Slavic (Bulgarian, Serbian...
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Prosody is important in English. It conveys many pragmatic functions relating to speech acts, attitude, turn-taking, topic structure, information structure...
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In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners (also...
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Cajun English, or Cajun Vernacular English, is a dialect of American English derived from Cajuns living in Southern Louisiana. Cajun English is significantly...
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understood from the individual meanings of its elements. For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase "kick the bucket" to mean "to die" –...
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how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an. They...
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used in, standard written Indian English include: ayye, aiye (interjection) (South India): ew. ayyo, aiyo (interjection) (South India): oh no, yikes. brinjal...
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at the beginning of the name "Gǁana" represents a click like the English interjection used when saying giddy-ap to a horse. For the clicks and other sounds...
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or group of words. Interjection (expresses feelings and emotions) an emotional greeting or exclamation (Huzzah, Alas). Interjections express strong feelings...
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