"huzzah" labelled Colonial speech

[Jonathan Lighter]

You're right about "Hip, hip, hurray !" but I don't recall anyone ever setting it up in real life, at least not in my experience.

  I was thinking of perfectly spontaneous situations where one emits his or her own yell of choice.

  JL

  Michael McKernan <mckernan at LOCALNET.COM> wrote:
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Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> But seriously, all I can recall using a kid FIFTY YEARS AGO is "Yay !"

How would you have responded if some one yelled, 'Hip, hip....'?

I believe that most people in the USA have been accustomed to 'hip, hip,
hooray,' for many years.

Michael McKernan

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