Bronx Cheer & Brooklyn Razzoo

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:40 AM -0500 11/19/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>    15 July 1940, PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN:
>...  Sports writers point out the Yankees baseball team
>plays in the Bronx and fans' noise of disapproval so named.  Same applies to
>the "Brooklyn razzoo," they say, Brooklyn baseball fans being the most ardent
>in the country.  Another name for such labioglossal sounds is "The Bird,"
>inherited from 19th century theater.  The gallery made a hissing sound in
>giving an actor "the bird," so-named from hissing sound of a goose; hence
>also, "the big bird."  More familiar, perhaps, are "razz" and "razzberry,"
>variants of word raspberry.

Love that "labioglossal".

larry