The status of 嗬 ho in Cantonese is somewhat like the interjection eh in English (mainly spoken in North America), as in 58.
Catherine Shoard may make random interjections in the comments section.
The writer ran across a list of interjections in a French dictionary and wanted to try using all of them in order without putting any other words in between.
Click sounds occur in a number of African languages and are often used as interjections in other languages e.g., the sound of disapproval represented in English by tsk, tsk.
It has long been established that a single word interjection, said in a particular way, can stand in for an entire sentence: "Yes" can mean either "Yes, of course it is so," or "Yes, I understand that; please continue" (Jones, 1936, p. 257).
Onomatopoeic interjections listed in the dictionary are allowed in Scrabble and now players can add exclamations such as augh, blech, eew, grr, waah and yeesh to their game.
Undoubtedly, the interjections may in hindsight appear reckless at best, (see current assessments re Iraq in 2003).
That may be the case, but Main's interjection may be in keeping with the views of many in the current government.
But he broke new ground in this piece by using "fuck" — as verb, noun, adjective, and interjection — fourteen times in a single paragraph.
