Talk:Hear, hear

Hear hear[edit]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Here here) Jump to: navigation, search Look up hear hear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Hear hear is an expression which originated as hear him, usually repeated. This imperative was used to call attention to a speaker's words, and naturally developed the sense of a broad expression of favor. This is how it is still used today, although one can always vary one's tone to express different sentiments; the Oxford English Dictionary noted around the turn of the century that the phrase, is now the regular form of cheering in the House of Commons, and expresses, according to intonation, admiration, acquiescence, indignation, derision, etc.

As a parliamentary cheer, hear him, hear him! is first recorded in the late 17th century and continued into the 19th; the reduction to hear! or hear, hear! occurred by the late 18th century. However, the use of the verb hear as an imperative meaning listen! is older: a notable example is the parliamentary-sounding Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear (King James Bible, 2 Samuel xx 16).

Aside from the interjection, a number of other forms are found, such as a hear, hear (originally, of course, a hear him) 'a cheer'; hear-hear 'to shout "hear, hear!"'; and hear-hearer 'a person who shouts "hear, hear!"'.

Source: Partial citation of a "words at random" posting on the randomhouse.com website

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BUT..What about the admonition your mother used when you were getting out of hand and she wanted your immediate attention? Is that "Here-Here!" or "Hear-Hear!"

Typically that would be "look here!" and neither of the above. I would suspect any use of "hear hear" with that meaning to be an error on your mother's part. User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 15:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

His mother was likely saying "Here-here!" to request his attention to be focussed on her. Dannysjgdf (talk) 03:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

apparent copy of Random House webpage[edit]

This article appears to be a copy of http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980304 --Mmgall (talk) 17:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely was lifted from there, for the most part. I'll try to rewrite it, citing the given page. --an odd name 21:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rewritten, with cited sources. --an odd name 22:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(An earlier revision, as shown on this talk page, cites a "Partial citation of a 'words at random' posting on the randomhouse.com website". Not sure why it was removed by an anon editor, thereby making the page even less verifiable than it already was, but it was not good enough anyway.) --an odd name 21:25, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to Whitehouse.gov[edit]

With the recent changes at Whitehouse.gov, the external link at the bottom of this page no longer points to former President Bush's address to the Australian Parliament. Especially, then, with the unavailability of the text, it would be a good idea to at least explain why that link is included in this article about the phrase "Hear, hear." rowley (talk) 19:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Exclamation points[edit]

English dictionaries have the phrase written as "Hear! hear!". Opencooper (talk) 20:44, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]