Fwd: Re: huzzah

[Ed Keer]

I recently went to a "Renaissance Faire" in NY State
and neither the costuming or the language seemed
authentic to my untrained eye/ear. It's interesting to
hear that the "originals" were more authentic. What's
the stpory on these things?

Ed

--- Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkmck at EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> >... 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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