the etymology of ‘oh no’.

I am recording this here for the sake of posterity. Around campus there seems to be a peculiar way of using the expression ‘oh no’; there is a special way in which it is said, with a slightly elongated ‘oh’ and a shortened ‘no’. there is some debate over where it came from, but I would assert that the phrase is one of charlottes – she used it with reference to me last year a lot, for example when I fell off chairs or got particularly drunk. I would assert that the phrase can be attributed to her, but whither charlotte got it, I know not.

Anyway, its on the ‘net now, so it must be true.

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