OUAI = "DAMN"?

dalmatia at eburg.com dalmatia at eburg.com
Mon Sep 14 17:18:23 EDT 1998


Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> If we attempted to express the force of MAKARIOS/MAKARIOI with a "Good for
> you!", then what would be the alternative for the OUAI? "There's Hell to
> pay!"?

Why not?  It's a good expression taken from the golden age of sail,
[19th century], and the rest of it is: "And no pitch hot!" ~ Refers to
the practice of paying the deck planking seams on the big sailing
ships with hot pitch to make them water-tight.  'Twas a huge and not
very popular job...

So is this word a compound of OU-A-EI?  And if so, how does it work,
and is it relevant?

George

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