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Venom Snake Posted 6 years ago
Grammar
O' or Oh
Hey there. I see a lot of "O' " and "Oh" now and then, especially in holly books, like "O' glorious lord!" or "O' sweet Jesus" or things like these, what does "O' " mean?
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In the "O glorious Lord" kind of context one would normally expect O , not O' . g. org/wiki/O#Etymology_2 : "The English vocative particle, used for direct address".
- In the "O glorious Lord" kind of context one would normally expect O , not O' .
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- org/wiki/O#Etymology_2 : "The English vocative particle, used for direct address".
- O is archaic/poetic, contrasted with Oh , which is the spelling usually used in modern English for the exclamation.
- O' seems non-standard to me, though it is hard to search for it in Google.
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In the "O glorious Lord" kind of context one would normally expect O, not O'. For O, see e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/O#Etymology_2 : "The English vocative particle, used for direct address". O is archaic/poetic, contrasted with Oh, which
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