Accounts from solitary imprisonment

Tue Oct 26 09:56:02 UTC 2004

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John Dunn wrote:

> The word that is currently favoured in Russian seems to be ÛÔÒ/ups.
> This is one of three English interjections that have been globalised,
> 
> >OOOOOPPPPPPSSSSS ......
> >
> >(seeing as how we're on the topic,  how would one say that in all Slavic
> >languages)

Hardly a Slavic language, but Afrikaans has a nice diminutive, "oepsie"

Geoff

 Geoffrey Chew
 Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
 Internet: chew at sun.rhul.ac.uk

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