Fwd: Re: huzzah
Kim & Rima McKinzey
rkmck at EARTHLINK.NET
Thu Oct 23 01:42:19 UTC 2003
>... Is there evidence that this was the earlier
>term, before "hurrah"?
I'm not sure how accurate their linguistic research was, but since
the original Renaissance Faires started by teacher Phyllis Patterson,
the cheers have always been huzzah. I do know that much of their
other research, e.g., costuming et al. has been pretty accurate to
the time - late 1500s.
Rima
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