pronun. of "yahoo," n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED offers [jhu] only, which is the educated pronunciation.

  IIRC, old westerns pronounce it [ 'je:hu: ], and, outside the classroom, I have heard it so pronounced in the South.  I never heard it at all in NYC, outside of the classroom.

  JL


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