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Programme 29: phwoar

Keep Your English Up to Date – Angličtina Youradio Talk

Držte krok s rychle se vyvíjející angličtinou! Známý lingvista David Crystal Vám pomůže "Keep your English up to date".

Phwoar! Interjections are words which express emotions and some are very old: words like &#039;cooer&#039;, &#039;gosh&#039; or &#039;phew&#039;. You don&#039;t get new interjections very often, but one did arrive in the 1980s. It was a sort of expression of enthusiastic desire - usually by a man about a woman. Easy to say &#039;phooaw!&#039; like that - less easy to write. How do you spell such a thing. All interjections have this kind of problem. Well, I&#039;ve seen it spelled f-o-o-o-a-r for instance ...all sorts of things beginning with f. But the one that is most widely used these days is p-h-w-o-a-r: &#039;phwoar!&#039; like that.  Well it&#039;s becoming very frequent, in all kinds of television programmes I&#039;ve heard it used recently. Interestingly, although it was originally a male noise, it&#039;s now being used by women. Women are using it back to the men. &#039;Phwoar&#039; these days could be a man looking at a woman in an enthusiastic way, or a woman looking at a man in an enthusiastic way. Nobody&#039;s ever said it to me; I just can&#039;t be an object of enthusiastic desire I suppose?  interjections - citoslovce expression of enthusiastic desire - projev plamenné touhy male noise - "mužský zvuk"   

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