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#1 2015-05-17 14:37:05

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"oooober" for "uber"

This showed up in my email inbox today:

Scott is a very fun teacher! and oooober skilled in the art of flying!!!

That led me to do a ‘Net search. Here are a few examples:

OOOOBER COOL idea!
discussion thread

Well…I leave in like 5 hrs for Florida…and I am oooober happy…yet…a little saddened…
blog

It soaks in quickly but leaves your skin oooober moisturized.
fashion blog

I’m sure there are plenty of examples with just two or three o’s, too. Any of these could just be the writer stretching out the first syllable for emphasis, but it’s also plausibly eggcornish; they could be thinking of “oooober” as something so big or extreme that it makes one go “Ooooh!”

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#2 2015-05-17 19:53:00

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2714
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Re: "oooober" for "uber"

Awwwsome


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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