[forwarded from 19cBB] Huzzah now in modern usage

[David Marc Fischer]

I associate it with Mr. Burns of The Simpsons. And so does someone at
Urban Dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Huzzah&defid=3411689

Huzzah!

David

> It - and also "hurrah!" - used to be fairly common in comic books in
> the '40's, particularly in ones whose stories featured protagonists
> who were students at the comic-book equivalents of St Grottlesex. An
> example is on the tip of my tongue and will, no doubt, come to mind as
> soon as I click "Send."
>
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
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> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:38 AM, M Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu> wrote:
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>> i recall jon stewart using it in the phrase "huzzah and kudos" on the
>> daily show a few years back. it seems to me it was an occasional
>> refrain. perhaps even with a graphic? i don't know. maybe just a
>> single use that made an impression and stuck with me. this is all very
>> helpful i'm sure.
>>
>> michael
>>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Scot LaFaive wrote:
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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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>>>
>>> I believe it's a fairly common interjection at renaissance
>>> festivals, for
>>> whatever reason.
>>>
>>> Scot
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>>> 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 . . .
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Mind you, I've said nothing.
>>>>
>>>> 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. Â I have
>>>> been
>>>> 86ed by my connection to the OED, so I can't verify this.
>>>>
>>>> Ms. Astifan writes, while giving this permission, that she had seen
>>>> this
>>>> passage in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle of March 2, 2009.
>>>>
>>>> Original posting follows:
>>>>
>>>> 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?"
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Priscilla Astifan
>>>>>
>>>>> GAT
>>>>>
>>>>> George A. Thompson
>>>>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
>>>>> Northwestern
>>>>> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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