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It clearly shares a resemblance with ‘oops.’

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“Ope” moncler uomo has essentially earned multiple meanings while still remaining entirely undefined. Still, a few people have tried to make some sense of it. BuzzFeed UK claimed it to be a “noise that all Brits make in awkward situations,” in a video that got moncler bambino saldi nearly 2 million views on YouTube. An Urban Dictionary entry called it an American Midwest thing. On Reddit, users across the world claimed they made the noise. As Dante finally entered the center of hell in “Inferno,” he heard a horrible sound of teeth gnashing piumini moncler uomo and lost souls uttering “ope” as he awkwardly wove around them to say hello to Satan. That last one is made up, moncler outlet trebaseleghe but seems like it could be legit.

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moncler outlet serravalle “It clearly shares a resemblance with ‘oops’ (and in fact is sometimes spelled ‘oop’),” linguist Ben Zimmer explained to me, offering some clarity. “But when it’s said as ‘ope,’ it could also be thought of as the ‘oh’ interjection plus a final ‘ moncler donna p,’ the same kind of ‘ p’ that we hear at the end of ‘yep,’ ‘nope,’ and ‘welp.'” moncler outlet serravalle

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moncler outlet online uomo “I just felt sorry for you,” Adams told me. “Because trying to figure out the etymology of it, all you’ve really got to go on is just the speculation. moncler saldi outlet I see why you were scratching your forehead about this one and if piumini moncler saldi you went off to look in dictionaries you wouldn’t find any useful information about it, but that’s piumini moncler scontatissimi usually a sign that there is no useful information.” moncler outlet online moncler bambino outlet uomo

moncler bambino saldi And so my life remains doomed as I’m cursed to wander the streets, never knowing when I’ll accidentally bump into someone and utter a nonsense syllable for which there is “no useful information.” moncler bambino saldi

I do not understand why I do this and may never figure that out. All I can say is that if this ends up wrecking your life as well, I can promise if you ever run into me in real life, I’ll be sure to say, “Ope, sorry.” piumini moncler outlet.

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