Alas and alack? Give me a sentence using alas. Now use alack? What the hades is that ?

Harry, that is what I would have done too. 

Oh Thank God I didn't make this up, Mr. W.

LOLOL!!  I cannot believe you attempted this at work.

E for effort for sure.

Now. Now. We both know what you did here is not going to work.

LOL

@Sharonna - I am on here most of the time from work. Normally, I have little to do these days as my boss only shows up once a week, but yestrday, I was busy.

Alas...I don't know what alack means and I am too lazy to look it up.

@ Element 99 -


EXCLAMATION



1.
archaic

an expression of regret or dismay.

Spunky, you only work when your boss is around?  Or he doesn't give you work unless he is there?  Sounds like a job made either in heaven or HELL~!~~~~

I've had jobs like that.   I felt like the time was so draggy and I always felt guilty taking up space but I never quit because the money was good in spite of the boredom.  I hope I never have to deal with a job like that again.

Me neither. That is why I asked. 

@ Sharonna - I should have said my "main" boss. Believe it or not, I'm assigned to six attorneys, but they're all so self-sufficient that I have very little to do. Yes, it is boring, but when I consider how much they pay me to sit on the Internet all day, it's hard to quit. Besides, I plan to retire at the end of January 2017, so it isn't as though I'm going to be looking for another job. :)

Oh pshaw!  lol

I know, LynnCal, I had to say SOMETHING>

Maybe we should ask a question about using Oh Pshaw!   I mean where did we ever drum that one up anyway?  LOL

LOL!

Alas, poor Yurick. I knew him well.

Nice Shakespeare reference.  Yorik, I think.  Not sure.  But what about alack?

You're probably right.  I didn't have time to look it up - too busy at work. :)  Couldn't think of anything for "alack."

Alas, we lost the referendum. I need to think about "alack" a bit longer. Say, that WAS a sentence using it!

There's a Shakespearean reference to both.  SS has noted the Hamlet reference, and there's this from Love's Labours Lost:

On a day - alack the day! -

Love, whose month is ever May,

Spied a blossom passing fair

Playing in the wanton air:

I think it's early medieval in origin, but where it comes from I couldn't say without looking.

Alas, what we have here is alack of communication.   LOL!