Oh | O

Usage:
1. Use O when it has a strong connection with the words that follow (i.e., when there is no comma after it).
O mighty motor-mouthed one….

2. Use Oh when it is an independent exclamatory utterance (i.e., when there is a comma or exclamation mark after it).
Oh, what a bunch of twaddle!

Quotation: "The present tendency is to restrict Oh to places where it has a certain independence and to prefer O where it is proclitic or leans forward upon what follows."
(Source: Fowler's Modern English Usage s.v. "O and Oh")


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