Yes, I have heard it. It tended to be said when we were toddlers and we either had just fallen or someone was holding us and pretended to drop us. Occassionally, you might hear someone say it now if they are trying to be humorous perhaps when someone starts to slip. I am not sure if the use with toddlers was a regional thing or not. I think I vaguely recall my grandma using even when we were older or even in reference to herself.

Hugh Grant said it in a film, I think Notting Hill. He commented it sounded rather silly coming from a grown man (no toddlers or children were present).

I did a quick search and found this link talking about this phrase and a couple of its cousins (upsy-daisy and whoopsy-daisy)
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?d...

Upon reading whoopsy-daisy, I am now thinking that might have been what Hugh Grant said.

When I lived in London (90-95) I heard it sometimes. Not often but often enough for me to assume it's quite a normal expression to be used when you drop something or forgot something etc. Not only with children and toddlers. But it seems to be old fashioned and I have never heard it being said by young, cool and hip guys and girls. ;) My bf's mother used to say it.

My daughter is 5 and says it about 15 times each day. It seems to be very popular at her school.

It originated in a clown cartoon in the sixties, but I can't remember the name of the clown.

Here is an excerpt from the above link which has indicates early usage than the 1960's:

For other people, oopsy-daisy and whoopsy-daisy are just variants of oops and whoops. This meaning has existed since 1925 when a New Yorker caption read "Whoopsie Daisy!" Oops and whoops have been exclamations of dismay since the early 1920s.

definitely NOT cool or hip

I spent my last summer as an au-pair in new york and the four girls of the family I lived with (they are between 1 and 10 years old) used to say it quite often, e.g. when someone dropped something.

mostly child talk

http://wordwizard.com/ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPI... has an extensive list of examples with different spellings and etymologies from various dictionaries.

new link: http://tinyurl.com/z869r

The term appears to be something what is used in scotland and seems to mean "Hoppla" or "Uppsala", or "Huch".
I found it being used frequently by main character Daisy McDonald, who is an au pair from Scotland, in the books "Phantastische Zauberreisen" by Dagmar Müller (http://www.dagmar-h-mueller.de/spannung.html).

It sounds so silly that I use it now increasingly often, maybe also because I like it so much when my daugther (9) speaks it (she reas these books).

In my childhood (before the 1960s!) very often, and occasionally still. I find myself using it when talking to very young children (when they drop something or fall over).

Same for me, childood in 50's and 60s, but I always heard it as oops-a-daisy. I have never needed to write it and can't remember reading it aanywhere. I would still use it, too, occasionally.

@12: by no means limited to Scotland, as others have already made clear. Like #14, my childhood spanned the 50s and 60s, and I would say oops-a-daisy (and also whoops-a-daisy).

Es wird tatsächlich in Notting Hill verwendet: Hugh Grant will über den Zaun in den Garten einsteigen und rutscht ungeschickt und peinlich ab (vor der Dame seines Herzens, Julia Roberts). Er macht die Sache noch schlimmer, indem er versucht, die Szene mit oopsy daisy zu entschärfen. Was ihn noch peinlicher dastehen lässt. Nicht cool. Sehr süß.

Also hier in Kent sagen wir's ziemlich oft....

oopsy-daisy. #13 sounds about right for me.

Also hier in Kent sagen wir's ziemlich oft....

I said it in Kent as a child seventy odd years ago, and they are still saying it? :-)

oops-a-daisy BTW, IIRC - as Spike says

There even is a contemporary song called Oopsy Daisy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS6wYe241eQ

Same here - childhood during the late 50s - 60s.

edit: oops-a-daisy, here, too :-)

Agree with the pronunciation "oops-a-daisy".

I am familiar with "oopsy daisy" from my first stay in the US (early 1980s, Ohio). I haven't heard it in many years, but then I am usually not around small children.

und auf Deutsch? Hoppala