"huzzah" labelled Colonial speech

[carole crompton]

Or " Booyah!" (That's what the 1st & 2nd graders all say these days.)
CMC
On Friday, March 24, 2006, at 07:17 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:

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>      In 1968 I remember seeing anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in New
> York City chanting various anti-war slogans/songs, while the
> counter-demonstrators were chanting "Hurray, hurray for the U.S.A.!"
> --- At least I seem to remember.  It's been a long time.
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> Gerald Cohen
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>         Message from Jonathan Lighter, March 24, 2006:
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>>   BTW, does anybody still shout even "Hurrah !" or "Hurray !" ?
>> Nowadays all I hear is "Yeah !" "Yeeeee-haaaah !" and "Yaaaay !"
>> Even "Yahoo ! " and "Whoopeee !" have come to sound like literary
>> fakes.
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>>   JL
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