Ted Hastings wrote:
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> Possibly, but the expression "fye for shame" seems to crop up fairly often.
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I think the most recent example I can remember is the use of Fi! Fi! in
the English translation of Strewelpeter, which is around 1890 (something
about a cat, I seem to recall - I have a copy somewhere which I found in
Moffat last year, sadly not in very good nick). I think 'fye for shame'
is in the same class as 'ochone alas!' or 'dule and wae' - doubling the
meaning by repeating a very similar sense of word.
David
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