Hear and here (was Re: Flowerbeds?)

[pengolodh_sc <pengolodh_sc@yahoo.no>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "tesseract197 
<jayemelle at e...>" <jayemelle at e...> wrote:

> Me:
> Hear, hear!  (Or is it, "Here, here"?  I've never figured that one 
> out.)  

It is "Hear! Hear!"  It is an encouragement to listen to the opinion
(s) of some other person, and a statement of agreement with that 
person, and as such does not really amke sense if it was "Here! 
Here!"  If it was "Here! Here!", that would imply that you are asking 
someone (who?) to come (from where?) to your present location 
(where?) - which does not fit the use of the expression at all.  
Another thing is that it in other languages where this phrase is 
used, such as Norwegian, it is clearly the word for "hear" that is 
used, not "here".

Best regards
Christian Stubø