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Dec 5, 2009
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O

This letter represents an eye, and is called in Hebrew ain (an eye).

O

The fifteen O's are fifteen prayers beginning with the letter O (See Hora Beatissima Virginis Mariae.)

The Christmas O's.
For nine days before Christmas (at 7 o'clock p.m.) are seven antiphones (3 syl.), each beginning with O, as O Sapientia, O Radix, etc.

O'

An Irish patronymic. (Gachc, ogha; Irish, oa, a descendant.)

O'

in Scotch, means “of,” as “Tam-o'-Shanter.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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