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Huzzah. " Huzzah " on a sign at a Fourth of July celebration. Huzzah (sometimes written hazzah; originally spelled huzza and pronounced huh-ZAY, now often pronounced as huh-ZAH; [1][2] in most modern varieties of English hurrah or hooray) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "apparently a mere exclamation". [3]
Mar 8, 2016 · Other exclamations of triumph or delight include wahoo, whee, yahoo, yee-haw, and yippee, which all go back a century or so. (The noun yahoo, referring to a coarse, ignorant person, is unrelated; it derives from the name of a race of brutish humans in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.) Hallelujah (from the Hebrew word hallĕlūyāh ...
Sep 24, 2011 · The only reason Hooray! (or Hurrah!) look like the sound people make when they're cheering is because we specifically replicate the written form we're already familiar with. People also shout Yay!, Hey! and Yeah! in the same context, or just holler some inarticulate sound.
I’m sure that many people who had grown up with the ”old” pronunciation continued to use it until the day they died. But as Webster’s dictionary supplanted the older ones both in the United States and in Great Britain, younger generations grew up with the words, spellings, meanings and pronunciations that Webster’s dictionary prescribed.
Dec 29, 2020 · When you have something wonderful to celebrate (maybe it's a new job or a new year), are you bored of saying "hooray"? Well, we have 9 alternatives for you.
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Mar 5, 2012 · You didn’t ask, but we ourselves were wondering about the “hip” (or multiples thereof) often accompanying a “hooray.”. The OED says that in this usage, “hip” is “an exclamation used (usually repeated thrice) to introduce a united cheer.”. The use of “hip” in cheers was first recorded in the 19th century. This is a good ...
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The OED has hooray as a variant of hurrah meaning goodbye, from 1898. Hurrah and hurray are a shout or cheers of encouragement, from huzza of 1573. Hip, also hep, is an exclamation or a call to another and the same as the Latin eho, heus!, according to Johnson. From 1752.
