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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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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Awwwsome
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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