Talk:Uh oh

Comments
In creating my disambituation page, this information about "Uh Oh" as an expression had to be left out. Could it be somehow incorporated into the already existing page??

'''Uh Oh is most commonly an interjection: '''An exclamation of error, concern, awareness of a problem, or surprise.

'''Examples: '''* "Uh-oh! I hope no one saw me do that." '''* "Uh-oh! Someone should fix that before anyone gets hurt."

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Coin945 (talk • contribs) 07:16, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Glottal stop and 1971?
This page claims that uh-oh is one of the few words in English that uses a glottal stop. This is not true as stated, since "English" is an English word which uses a glottal stop.
 * The statement now is supported by a good reference. Also, the word "English" does not appear to have a glottal stop. Valerius Tygart (talk) 16:07, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

According to Webster's online dictionary, the expression "uh-oh" first appears in English around 1971. I find this hard to believe, and I don't know how to verify it. Does anyone have more information about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.177.103.71 (talk) 21:31, 28 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It is obvious to anyone of a certain age that "Uh oh" pre-dates 1971. Just think of the recurrent play on the expression in the popular TV cartoon series The Jetsons (1962-63), in which the futuristic, talking — albeit speech impaired — canine Astro enunciates "Ruh roh!" at times of particular stress. Valerius Tygart (talk) 15:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 23 April 2015

 * The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was not moved. --BDD (talk) 19:46, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Uh oh → Uh-oh – The hyphenated version seems to be much more common. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 17:25, 1 May 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. Andrewa (talk) 21:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC) Ixfd64 (talk) 00:50, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * could you offfer some evidence to support this?--67.68.209.200 (talk) 03:28, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * While I don't personally have any objection to the content my first thought is that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. To me "Uh-oh" looks unnecessarily complicated.  "Uh oh" is more clearly not anything other than an expression.  GregKaye 12:06, 23 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment. As above, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Is there any value to this article? Zarcadia (talk) 19:20, 23 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I share the above users' concerns. Merge this "article" to Wiktionary, move the Uh Oh DAB page to Uh-Oh, and redirect all spellings there.  —  AjaxSmack   03:12, 27 April 2015 (UTC)\\


 * Oppose move as proposed but there are definitely issues to address, suggest we come up with an alternative, see below. Relisting. Andrewa (talk) 21:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Perhaps it's just me but I'm honestly seeing no advantage or disadvantage to having the hyphen there?. – Davey 2010 Talk 00:41, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
Agree that all varieties of spelling should point to the DAB currently at Uh Oh, which I'd be inclined to move to Uh-oh as I think that nom is right and that is the most common spelling.

This article should be moved back to Uh-oh (expression) reversing the previous move ''01:57, 9 October 2013‎ Medeis (talk | contribs | block)‎. . (19 bytes) (+19)‎. . (Medeis moved page Uh-oh (expression) to Uh oh: no hyphen necessary)''. It's currently a dictionary definition, yes, but it's a good topic and should became an article similar to Yo or several other examples in Category:Interjections, meantime it can also stay in Category:Vocabulary and usage stubs.

Comments? Andrewa (talk) 21:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Agree, the page should be at uh-oh (expression) and the dab page can be at uh-oh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.162.73 (talk) 22:26, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.