Class One: Exclamatory and Other Emotive Responses
..............................aha! When the mental bell rings, the lightbulb clicks on. According to William Safire, "one of the great, unappreciated and deliciously nuanced words in the English language." (NYT 1997) Used by Chaucer in the 1300's in The Canterbury Tales. In Yiddish it is used to... Sign in to see full entry.