The True Spelling of “Eh-uh Ah”
January 5th, 2005
Eh-uh Ah.
It is a phrase not in ANY dictionary or thesaurus. It has never found it’s way into spelling competitions or Powerpoint presentations. Yet every human on the planet uses the phrase on a daily basis to communicate a variety of emotions:
-Lethargy
-Fatigue
-Boredom
-Lack of Decision-Making Abilities
-Indecisiveness
-Ignorance
-Feigned Happiness
-Creative Famine
-Emotional Depression
-Stupidity
-Passive Agressive Nature
Eh-uh Ah, verb (eh-uh, aoh)
1. To express no interest whatsoever while communicating some level of interest, sort of. When she asked him how he felt about having a baby, his response was ‘eh-uh ah’.
2. To respond without knowledge. The teacher asked Bill to break down Pi into numerical form, to which he reponded ‘eh-uh ah’.
Ask someone to spell it after they use it — and they will be stumped. Ask someone to describe just what it means and they will most often respond with the same word you’ve just questioned them about. It is a phantom word that isn’t a word that is really a word combined with a vocal tone to communicate the actual definition of the word which in reality, isn’t a definition but a feeling instead of a real, concrete grammatical reasoning behind any definition or vocal soundscape.
Eh-uh Ah is proud to share it’s category with a variety of other similarly hard-to-spell word/emotional feelings such as: nuh-uh, nya-ah, ehh-iy-ah, naaaah, cccchhah-ha, and pffffbbt.
We hope WFME has provided you with the correct spellings for some of life’s most commonly-used words that, in reality, aren’t words at all.
My art teacher knows exactly what you mean. Whenever anyone uses the phrase “um” (or “eh-uh ah,” as you obviously prefer) she says, “Um?! What’s an ‘um’?” or something of that nature.
I, of course, pre-prepare all statements and responses to such in advance to avoid the situation.
Comment by Will — January 6, 2005 @ 3:28 pm