New thread--a curious thing

[A. Maberry]

Yikes!
Never used "yipes".

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Bob Haas wrote:

> Dear ADS folk,
>
> How many of you use the interjection "yipes" as opposed to "yikes"?  This is
> an odd question perhaps, but I've always used "yikes."  When I recently
> attempted to use it in an e-mail, my spell-checker on Outlook Express called
> me on it.  I didn't find yikes in the American Heritage, but I did find
> yipes.  I grew up with yikes, but I couldn't begin to tell you where I got
> it (so if you'd please send money for research . . .).
>
> I'm guessing that yikes is a variant of yoicks, but I have no idea whether
> this is true or not.  I'm just curious:  yikes or yipes or yoicks?  Which do
> you use?
>
>
> --
>
> Bob Haas
> Department of English
> The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
> High Point University
>
>
> "Shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"
>