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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