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just read it.. don't name the colors..
um . . . aren't you supposed to do it the other way?
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just read it.. don't name the colors..
um . . . aren't you supposed to do it the other way?
I found it easy to read the words, naming the colo(u)rs was a bit more difficult.
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Mr. Ed...[it's stuck in my head, why shouldn't it be stuck in yours...]Hey, Joe! That's my horse you rode in on!  ...from the other horse thread.  Well, listen to this!..."Hiiiiiiii, Willllllburrrrrrrrrrrrr!...." 
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Hear here!... this is the place for listening! I think. 
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Yes, I hesitated while naming some colours also but not in reading out the words.
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I always thought it was "here, here" meaning I too, me standing right here, agree with what you say. I did so because of the way it is shouted out - loudly, with no hesitation between each word.
When you want someone to pay attention you might say "hear, hear" but wouldn't you pause for effect and to draw the person's attention after the first "hear" then say the second "hear". I'm having a bit of trouble explaining it. Act it out and you may see what I mean.
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I certainly understand the usage a la House of Commons as "Hear, Hear!" or "Hear! Hear!".
But then there is also the other spelling, as in, "Here, here! What do you mean by such conduct?" in a Colonel Blimp tone.
Strangely, there is also There, There, as in "There, there, sweetie, don't cry."
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Confusingly though, the MP's always manage to make it sound like 'yearyear'.
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Hear! Hear! appears to be a shortened form of "Hear ye! Hear ye!"
Not shortened. The earlier form is "Oyez, oyez!". The more natural translation of that is "Hear, hear!". The English use in Parliament might date from the time English was adopted as the official language... I should know when... late 1300s?
Town cryers are said to cry "Hear ye", but how authentic a tradition is that?
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I think I disagree politely with BelM. I always thought it was "Hear, hear". I think it may have been spelled that way in a textbook, once.
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