pronun. of "yahoo," n.

[Joel S. Berson]

I see that the OED phonetic characters did not reach me, nor perhaps
others on the list.  (Next time I'll send styled text.)

But isn't the OED2 pronunciation "yah-HOO"?  Its stress mark is
before the "hu:".  The OED2 guide to pronunciation says "The
incidence of main stress is shown by a superior stress mark (')
*preceding* the stressed syllable" (emphasis added).

Joel

At 3/12/2007 11:17 AM, Jon L. wrote:
>The IPA symbols used by OED say "YAH-hoo." Mine say "YAY-hoo."
>
>   JL
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>"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>At 3/11/2007 07:15 PM, Jon L wrote:
> >OED offers [jhu] only, which is the educated pronunciation.
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>My outdated OED2 offers (jA;"hu;) -- which I translate as
>"yah-HOO" (A; as in barn; u; as in boon). Is that the same as Jon's [jhu] ?
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> > 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.
>
>Joel
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