soz
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Rhotacism of sorry; sorry + -z. Documented since at least 1987.[1]
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soz
- (slang, chiefly UK or Internet) Synonym of sorry
- 1996 September 1, “Dear Annie: Ready to wear”, in Independent on Sunday[1]:
- I'd like to apologise, unreservedly, to pigs everywhere, but especially those on my farm […] So Hermes pig collars all round to my herd and soz soz soz.
- 1999, “Love Comes to Royston Vasey”, in The League of Gentlemen, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Henry Portrait and Ally Welles:
- I'm soz about what happened.
- 2005 February 7, John Oates, “U2 says soz for online snafu”, in The Register[4]:
- U2 says soz for online snafu [title]
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