| 词组 | O, oh |
| 释义 | O, oh Usage writers from Ayres 1881 to Shaw 1987 have been explaining the fine distinctions between these two variants of the same interjection. To us the matter looks much simpler. If you meet a capital O all by itself in current American prose, the odds are that you are looking at an abbreviation or a symbol or some other arbitrary designation. If you see it used interjectionally, you may be sure that you are reading a highly rhetorical writer fond of apostrophe: • O for the times when one tended to go by the second edition of Webster's—Simon 1980 • O, the gallant self-effacement of the mountaineering fraternity —John G. Mitchell, Wilderness, Summer 1985 If you want to be an apostrophizer, you should be aware that veteran apostrophizers follow the ancient custom of putting no punctuation after the O. Most plain people use oh nowadays. It is customary to separate oh from following matter with a comma or exclamation point. Oh is generally capitalized only when beginning a sentence. O is a rare spelling in ordinary interjectional use. When you see it, you are permitted to suspect that someone is after a particular effect, such as mockery: • O, lackaday, the organization had betrayed me — Wayne C. Booth, Now Don't Try to Reason with Me, 1970 |
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