Ejaculation (grammar)
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In grammar, an ejaculation is an utterance that expresses a feeling outside of the normal language structure. Often, but not always, it is an exclamation, most often consisting of a single word, either an interjection or a profanity or both.

Examples:

  • In English:
    • The shout Hey!.
    • The huh in That man? Huh! He's history!
    • "Glory to God!", "Glory be!", or "Praise the Lord!" In this context, this is known as a religious ejaculation, not to be confused with a religious profanity.
  • In spoken French:
    • The exclamation Bien!.


Despite Christopher Woolf's denial of this fact, the term ejaculation is still used very prevalently by respected linguists all over the world to describe the part of speech that this article is about.

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