See ecphoneme on Wiktionary
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"text": "1858, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars, fourth edition, Samuel S. and William Wood, page 800,\nThe Ecphoneme, or Note of Exclamation, is used to denote а pause with some strong emotion of admiration, joy, grief, or other feeling; and, as a sign of great wonder, it is sometimes, though not very elegantly, repeated […]"
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