Dr Ian McCormick
Sherlock Hemlock: a Muppet character on the PBS series Sesame Street.
His catchphrase is "Egad!" which he exclaims whenever he makes a discovery.
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OGLE: Egad if she don't Marry me, she's the arrantest Jilt in Christendom.
--- Susanna Centlivre, The Beau's Duel: or, a Soldier for the Ladies. A comedy (1715)
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"A rout and rabblement of critical gallimaufry."
--- John Gay, The Shepherd's Week (1714)
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QUAG: a bog, a quagmire
QUAGGLE: a tremulous motion
QUAGGY: soft, boggy; flabby
"Behold her then, spreading the whole tumbled bed with her huge quaggy carcass."
---Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748).
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The rise and fall of HUMBUG ! (but most examples are not interjections)
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The rise and fall of the exclamation BAH!
"Away she flung ... nor saide bih nor bah."
--- Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599).
"Dreading the deep damnation of his ‘bah!’ "
--- Lord Byron, Beppo (1818)
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bookandswordblogA recent Language Log post about the Greek word for slave has the open web's most eccentric philologists and an intriguing suggestion about the Central Asian nomads called the Dahae https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71754 #philology #linguistics