goodbye

[hsi_feng]

I was wondering what part of speech "bye" is; my smart friend correctly guessed interjection, even though it doesn't seem much like an interjection to me (although, really, what else could it be). Dictionary.com also gave the origin (1565-75; contr. of God be with ye) and the following helpful paragraph, which they apparently got from The American

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[opium]

Sweet! I love finding out this kind of thing.