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kitsjay ([personal profile] kitsjay) wrote2011-02-17 10:17 am
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A Brief PSA in the Name of Linguistic Integrity

Okay, people, I'm only going to say this once:

It's "Hear, hear", not "here, here".

For those of you who are actually interested, it's an abbreviated form of, "Hear him, hear him", as in, "Listen up, y'all."

You may now go back to your regularly scheduled lives.



See also: It's "bated breath", as in a-bated breath (i.e. you're so excited, you're holding your breath). Baited breath presumably would be used if you just had worms for lunch and were hovering over a pond, waiting for a fish to jump in your mouth. Otherwise, no.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_celtic_rose_/ 2011-02-17 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
What if I just want my location to be known? Here here!!!

*ducks imagined blow to head*

[identity profile] be-merry.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
People actually wrote that? :(((((

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_celtic_rose_/ 2011-02-18 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
why do I feel you should own this?

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/02/seth-kinmans-grizzly-bear-chair-seth.html

maybe cause of your dad's horny chair?

[identity profile] nagasvoice.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Baited breath, I'm seeing a line-art cartoon of one of those folks with a tongue-piercing looking quite startled as a fish leaps at them...

[identity profile] needanap.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
What makes this post hilarious is your next one details how you got wasted on shrimp.

Fair effort.