Hear and here (was Re: Flowerbeds?)

[tesseract197 <jayemelle@earthlink.net>]

Thanks :o)  You'd never know I proofread for a living, would you?  
Anyway, I appreciate the clarification!

Tess

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc 
<pengolodh_sc at y...>" <pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:
> --- 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