yahoo

[Benjamin Barrett]

Unfortunately, dictionaries do not cover the term "or" very well. Both
m-w.com and the AHD3 fail to note that "or" can be inclusive or
exclusive.

To find out why "or" is correct, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/or

BB

On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote (less the childish
ranting):

> The basic issues were.
> 1.  m-w.com's majority pronunciation is YAY-hoo (yay as in hay), but
> I'd think it is YAH-hoo or yah-HOO.
> 2.  m-w.com doesn't recognize yahoo as an interjection, which is
> obvious to me as the majority use, as yahoo.com would after the
> interjection not the noun (stupid person).
> 3.  m-w.com defines a "yahoo" as a "boorish (rude), crass
> (undignified), OR stupid person."  I maintain they must mean AND not
> OR as one could be smart and boorish and crass as well.  Otherwise a
> boorish person is a yahoo,  a crass person is a yahoo, and a stupid
> person is one two.

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