Eureka: The Word Just Burst Out!

A look at an English expression that is loosing its place in the language. Transcrip of radio broadcast:
10 August 2008

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eureka.  It is a kind of word called an expletive.  Expletives are quick, short outcries of pain, surprise, anger or joy.  We hear them all the time.


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