OAT A / OAT B / OTAY [exclamation]
Pronunciation Ote Eh? Ote Bee / Ote Eh?
Meaning Ok. Oat A is thought to be more optimistic than Oat B.
Usage "This is going to be a really pants example sentence, oat b?"
Origin Flink introduced the word "otay" in 1998; in 1999 Zed started messing around with it.

OCEAN COLOUR SPLEEN / GEEN [noun]
Pronounciation O Shun Cull Urgh Spleen / Geen. The 'g' of 'geen' is harder than adding forty thousand six-digit numbers together in your head.
Meaning Ocean Colour Scene, a mid-nineties band.
Usage Listening to, providing you don't die of boredom.
Origin Birmingham, 1989.

OCK [exclamation]
Pronunciation Ock.
Meaning Ok.
Usage "Um, Dad?" "Yes, Britney?" "I just crashed your Jag." "Oh, it's ock."
Origin Zed, 1997. Got phased out when "otay" was introduced, but since I now loathe and detest that word, Ven's determined to introduce it again.

ODDNESS [noun / exclamation]
Pronunciation Odd Nuss
Meaning That's odd / odd stuff.
Usage "Oddness. I just found a combine harvester under my bed."
Origin Zed, 1997.

ODDNESS BODNESS [noun / exclamation]
Pronunciation Odd Nuss Bodd Nuss
Meaning That's odd.
Usage "What, N Sync released a half-listenable song? Oddness bodness!"
Origin Zed, 1997.

OH WELL. MILKY MILKY. [phrase]
Pronunciation Oh Wel. Mil Kee Mil Kee.
Meaning Ne'ermind; I shall drink a glass of rather foul-looking milk now and complain no more until next week.
Usage "Gah, I've just run out of milk. Oh well, milky- oh. Splerd."
Origin The Punt And Dennis Show, The Early 90s. Adopted by Zed's Family immediately afterwards.

OMEGA MOMENT [noun]
Pronunciation Oh Mega Moe Ment
Meaning Freaky coincidence.
Usage Fairly good for saying, "Really? Wow, that's so weird!" over for a few seconds. Origin Zed's mother, the mid-90s, due to the number of weird things to happen in her workplace (Omega Music).

OMNIA BOMNIA [noun]
Pronunciation Om-nee-a, bom-nee-a.
Meaning All the bombs.
Usage Usually when playing the two-player version of the classic Acorn computer game Moonquake, which Aaron has adapted for the PC. "Katrina has got omnia bomnia but I've got more fire power than her!"
Origin Zed, summer 1993, "omnia" being Latin for "all".

ONEPLES AND TWOPLES [noun]
Pronunciation Wonn Pulls And Tu Pulls
Meaning One and two pence coins.
Usage Saving up and putting in the Park Wood vending machines and watching the poor sod who sticks a pound coin in afterwards drowning in bronze.
Origin It's probably quite common, but I picked it up from Bryn in late 2001.

ONGE [noun]
Pronunciation Ondge
Meaning Orange sqaush
Usage "Can you make me some onge, Anne-o-gram?"
Origin Zed, the late 80s. Every day, I would ask Anne who worked at my parents' shop to make me a cup of orange squash. (Doing it myself would just not be the same.) It had to be in a certain cup, and I had to let her know I approved by giving her a thumbs up while drinking. Hmm.

ONSPINE [adjective]
Pronunciation On Spine
Meaning Online
Usage "I am onspine and on channel #swansongs."
Origin Zed, 1998. No longer used, since I don't use IRC anymore.

ORIGIONAL [adjective]
Pronunciation Aw Ridge Ee On Ull.
Meaning Original, in a teenybopper sense.
Usage "Mai speling iz sooooooo origional!"
Origin San, early 1999, when writing domain reviews, many of which contained a "this is a really origional domain". Shameless stolen by The Aevil Brigade.

ORRH! [exclamation]
Pronunciation Orrh! in a very French manner.
Meaning Oh, I am so annoyed and I'm also in a very French mood!
Usage "Orrh! zese French people and zeir fooleesh but addeecteeve turns of phrase mean I may never feeneesh recording all zuh words of zese langweedge!" Compare ARR!
Origin The French. I started saying it a lot in July 2001 on a trip to Frenace.

ORWELL / OTELL / OVELL / O'WELL
Pronunciation Aw Well / Oh Tell / Oh Vell / Oh Well
Meaning Oh well.
Usage "Another boring example sentence. O'well."
Origin Zed and Meaghan, late 1999.

OUES [exclamation]
Pronunciation Wess
Meaning Yes
Usage "Oues, this is a particularly poor example sentence, isn't it?"
Origin Zed, 1996, doing a cross between "oui" and "yes". It proved particularly addictive for a while - I ended up having normal people in hysterics - but quickly stopped.

OUM [exclamation]
Pronunciation Owm.
Meaning What you say when you take a big bite of something.
Usage "Ooh, an example sentence! Oum!"
Origin Noj, early 2000.

OUO [exclamation]
Pronunciation Uncertain. Wu-oh, we think.
Meaning Yes.
Usage Ouo ther e area lo t of typioes in this setence, arent' ther?
Origin Topia, April 2000, when trying to type "Oui".

OUTAY [preposition]
Pronunciation Oo Tay
Meaning Out of
Usage "Ivray time ah saw Spud, he wis bombed outay his boax."
Origin Zed, 2000. No doubt picked up from "Trainspotting" or adapted from its dialect.

OVERYOJED [adjective]
Pronunciation Oh vur yodged
Meaning Overjoyed
Usage "You will be overyojed to find this example sentence fits more or less precisely into the mould of so many others in this section."
Origin Zed, late 1999.