[forwarded from 19cBB] Huzzah now in modern usage

[Scot LaFaive]

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> This is the first time I've heard the word huzzah outside of 19th century
> baseball or early American history texts. And I've not often seen it there.



I believe it's a fairly common interjection at renaissance festivals, for
whatever reason.

Scot


On 3/6/09, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> Posted to a listserv of harmless crackpots devoted to the study of the
> history of baseball, and forwarded, with permission, to a listserv of . . .
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> Mind you, I've said nothing.
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> A response to this to the original listserv cited the OED, seemingly to the
> effect that its latest references are from the late 19th C.  I have been
> 86ed by my connection to the OED, so I can't verify this.
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> Ms. Astifan writes, while giving this permission, that she had seen this
> passage in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle of March 2, 2009.
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> Original posting follows:
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> For what it's worth I just read syndicated columnist Kim Komando's article,
> "Microsoft will trumpet new system, but what's the real reason behind it?"
> Naturally I was surprised to find the following in the opening paragraph:
> "When it is released, you can expect brass bands, dancing girls and mighty
> huzzahs. But why?"
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>  This is the first time I've heard the word huzzah outside of 19th century
>>>> baseball or early American history texts. And I've not often seen it there.
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>>> Interesting.
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>> Priscilla Astifan
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>> GAT
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>> George A. Thompson
>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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