Timeline for Why do we use the word “oops”, if something goes wrong?
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| Jul 15, 2019 at 20:35 | comment | added | Chronocidal | +1, because this is the only answer that ties into why I was searching for this: English speakers say "Oops", Portuguese speakers say "Ops", Russian speakers say "ой", German speakers say "hoppla", and Japanese speakers say "ottotto". So, I was curious about the nigh-global similarities, which "oops-a-daisy" doesn't support (and, in fact, seems likely to have come from "oops" instead) | |
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| Jan 11, 2016 at 21:56 | history | answered | Tim Ward | CC BY-SA 3.0 |