Friday, June 06, 2008

The meaning of 'Hear Ye'

As you all can see my blog is 'Hear ye, Hear ye!'. I just found out that someone found my site by 'Googling' for the meaning of 'Hear ye'. So i've decided to write a short post on the meaning of it. My own interpretation that is.

It's usually used when there's an important announcement for all to hear and catches people's attention. I'm sure you all have seen old movies where a herald would stand in the middle of the town square with a scroll in hand and shouts 'hear ye, hear ye!'. And then would proceed making his official announcement that would originate from the castle. Another commonly used expression would be 'Hear hear'. This is often used when one wants to call to attention of what somebody just said.

Hear ye, Hear ye! I'm moving in to my own home tomorrow!

16 comments:

Michiko said...

Hi! Me too, I googled 'Hear ye, hear ye' and it brought HERE, to your Blog! Tee hee hee

Have a good day! :)

Anonymous said...

hear ye, hear ye!

same thing happened to me ^.~

bye :)

Syrella said...

Ditto :) But I did read your article on newspaper sexism. Sad, but true. It should certainly have been "22 people" and not "3 women". Just gotta stay alert, I guess!

Anonymous said...

yes im also here looking for an explanation.lol
thanks

Anonymous said...

Hello. And Bye.

Anonymous said...

Hello there,

Thanks for sharing the link - but unfortunately it seems to be down? Does anybody here at hot-choc-anyone.blogspot.com have a mirror or another source?


Thanks,
Peter

Anonymous said...

Weird, I was just checking the spelling. This came up. Cool. I don't know why, it popped in my head this morning. Ha.

Kevin2011 said...

I googled here as well!!!

You have given the world a treasure of information and I want to thank you on behalf the Dutch population and everyone in this universe who has gained deeper understanding of life and/or have re-gained their confidence in their English grammar!

Also: Vote for Jesus!!!

Eargazzm said...

Just wanted to say that I stumbled on to this blog when I Google'd for Hear ye, Hear Ye. hehe

Noypi said...

hear ye, hear ye! google sent me here too... :D

Anonymous said...

Another one here googling hear ye, hear ye! ;)

hot choc said...

:D

Anonymous said...

Bwaahaha, me too!!

Anonymous said...

Me too! :)

Unknown said...

Here here!

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