Just wondered.....

[Stargazer]

Should it be "here, here!" or "hear, hear!"? Just saw a posting and realised that I was not sure which is correct.

[snags]

The latter. 'hear, hear' is an expression used as a short, repeated form of 'hear him, hear him'. It represents a listener's agreement with a point being made...

[hellywelly4]

Just copied this from Wikipedia


Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him, hear him. It represents a listener's agreement with the point being made by a speaker. It is often incorrectly spelled "here here"