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Why was bye bye written?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Bye is a shortened form of good-bye (1591, from godbwye (1573), itself a contraction of God be with ye, infl. by good day, good evening, etc.) Reduplication bye-bye is recorded from 1709, though as a sound used to lull a child to sleep it is attested from 1636.

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16y ago

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