Fwd: Re: huzzah

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:32:38AM -0400, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> I'm not interested in the tiger term, but in "huzzah."  In a recent TV
> documentary on the first settlement in the Northwest Territory at Marietta,
> Ohio in 1786 or thereabouts, post-Revolutionary War soldiers were
> re-enacted as shouting "huzzah!" when they toasted their success, or a
> speech, or a celebratory meal.  Is there evidence that this was the earlier
> term, before "hurrah"?

OED has evidence from the seventeenth century.

Jesse Sheidlower