"And he shall have power the Dark Lord knows not...."

[phoenixgod2000]

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> digger:
> > 'Hark who's talking' is a commonplace phrase in British English.
> > Using the work 'Hark!' on its own, or as an exclamation, is 
pretty 
> much 
> > obsolote though.
> 
> Geoff:
>  "Hark who's talking" is indeed a common expression -  I use it 
> myself. It suggests that the speaker isn't really in a position to 
> comment because they have said or done something similar. It's 
along 
> the same lines as "the pot calling the kettle black".

Interesting. Learn something new every day. I got the meaning by 
context but the word itself really threw me for a loop.
> 
> My apologies, I was completely thrown by the earlier post. It was 
the 
> reference to Christmas carols ("Hark, the herald angels sing") 
which 
> put me onto the wrong train of thought. "Hark", in that context is, 
> as Digger rightly says, obsolete and archaic.

Sorry, that was me being confused. Hark the Herald angels sing is 
practically the only context I have ever heard that word used before. 
It just struck me as incredibly archaic. I had no idea that was in 
common usage at all.

Its almost like Brits and Americans speak entirely different versions 
of english :)

phoenixgod2000