oh-oh! uh-uh! (ekse: Hawaiian loanwords)

[Liland Brajant ROS']

R K Henderson scripsit:

>Hadn't that of that! I'll bet you're right. "Wow" is of purely North
>American origin, as is "uh-huh" and "uh-uh," both of which are First
>Nations contributions.

In re the latter, at least in my dialect of English this is one of the
few lexical items that regularly contains a glottal stop.  (Oh-oh is
another; is it held to be First National?)  I know English dialects (mostly
*not* North American) where the glottal stop is a fairly common thing,
usually as an allophone of /t/ ("glo?al plosive", "bo?le o' rum", "9-volt
ba?ery", etc.), but mine is not one of them.  What's the evidence for
these interjections' First Nations provenance?  (Seems to me that the
etymologies of short, informal ways of yeaing and naying are almost as
hard to prove as those of probable onomatopoeias.)

BTW, is "[Hadn't] that [of that]" an allograph of "thought"?  Maybe
English spelling can be as capricious as CJ!

Liland

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