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Originally Posted by pdurrant
That's true. Many who should know better think that what British MPs call out in support of a speaker is "Here, here!" when it's really "Hear, hear!".
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In fairness, for someone who doesn't understand the derivation, "Hear! Hear!" doesn't immediately sound like a likely thing for someone to be calling out. (I suppose "Here! Here!" doesn't either, but it's a more familiar word to be used as a stand-alone.)
It's like that perennial chuckler "for all intensive purposes ...", and so many other mis-heardisms -- none of which come to mind right now!
