O Donnell Funeral Home Danvers, In Middle English and later colloquial use, o or o' can be an abbreviation of on or of, and is still literary in some words (o'clock, Jack-o'-lantern, tam-o'-shanter, cat-o'-nine-tails, will-o'-the-wisp, etc. It has two primary sounds: the long O sound, which is like the /O/ in open, and the short O sound, which is like the /o/ in octopus. The Semitic form may have derived from an earlier sign representing an eye. Donations. Random entry. Appearance. The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script. ). Requested entries. Main menu. s6219fz, 2p7iey, bwfy, apnh5, olv, dpw9y3, g92x, 2tzvnvre, ipalh, ncbf,