LL-L "Etymology" 2003.08.07 (07) [E]

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From: Brooks, Mark <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2003.08.07 (02) [E/LS]

Andrys asked:

"Is bye bye the same as bye and bye (as in the sweet bye and bye)? Are the
two even related?"

No, I don't think so.  I'm a native speaker of English of the American
(Texas) variety.  To me it comes from "baby talk" in which a parent is
teaching a baby to say "goodbye" to someone, but uses "bye, bye" instead of
the whole word "goodbye."  It has since caught on in the mainstream of the
language.  So much for my brand of folk etymology.

Mark Brooks

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