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binocttoday at 2:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

Here here. This was a joy to wake up to and wish I hadn’t stumbled into the comments.


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Timwitoday at 9:00 PM

For future reference, the phrase is “hear, hear”.

sowbugtoday at 9:02 PM

Then you're really going to love this.

The proper term is a shortened form of "hear him, hear him," which was necessary because British Parliament didn't allow clapping or cheering. Instead, if you wanted to show agreement with a speaker's point, you'd shout out that everyone else should "hear" him.

Not to be confused with "hear ye," which evolved from the French "oyez," which is the imperative form of "to listen," which was shouted at a crowd before an important announcement.