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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Board, EC and Management Relationships
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:54:52 -0500
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Or, as I told Kathleen, the difference is that if holler "Here! Here!" the
response would have to be "Where? Where?" If the expression is rendered
"Hear! Hear!" then it is to be hoped the response would be, "What? What?"

Richard

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From: "Elizabeth Shown Mills" <>
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Board, EC and Management Relationships


> Kathleen wrote:
>>I don't know if the quote should be "Here, here", or
> "Hear, hear", but the second is more to my intentions.
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> It's "hear, hear --- as in "Listen up, folks!"
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> It's plain English for the Latin "Oyez, Oyez" that the "public crier" used
> to call out to get attention when court was about to convene or
> proclamations were about to be read, back in the day when such proceedings
> were conducted in Latin.
>
> Elizabeth
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