Talk:Huzzah

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I'm wondering ... might "huzzah" have come from the French, "aux armes"? I was listening to Edith Piaf's version of La Marseillaise and was struck by the similarity of pronunciation; this would fit with a military origin in the 17th/18th century.

Should Balrog of Cave Story fame be mentioned? 66.69.147.209 08:27, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

My preference is for a derivation from hoist and wonder if when hoisting a flag in salute it could be done in three pulls and hence 'Give three cheers - huzzah, huzzah, HUZZAH'

Maxx 08:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


From Trevelyan, England Under the Stuarts (Methuan, 21st ed, 1961), p 347

"Yet even Charles [II] seemed too mild a monarch for subjects in this mood. His popularity waned before that of his brother [James II], whose health was now everywhere drunk with the loud 'Huzzah', the cry of the Tory partisans."

The year referred to is 1681.

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[edit] the good ol' once-over

Rearranged a bit... anyone feel free to polish and/or remove the cleanup tag. Potatoswatter 08:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hip, hip, hurray is my U.S. childhood way.

Hip, hip, hurray was how fifty years ago in Chicago we would pretend to be Englishmen. As we are a melting pot or perhaps a mosaic, I worry about cheers, such as huzzah, losing all meaning and history. I wonder, too, if England's Imperialism and Colonialism somehow exude from even "hurray!" Go to any baseball game or sports event in the U.S., and you just don't hear, "Hurray" or "Huzzah." These are archaic cheers or salutes or toasts that simply at most have ethnic history. Last kid soccer game I went to had lots of cheers and screams, but no hurray, let alone a huzzah.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomasderk (talk • contribs)

Are you saying you pretended to be English at games in the fifties, or that nobody says hooray these days? Maybe it's always been a matter of personal style. Potatoswatter 08:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Uhmm.... Should there even be a page on this? 24.222.102.218 22:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Huzzah! Potatoswatter 06:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

What happend to my "Media" section? Usuage in pop culture is just as important as other usage already in the article. Jasont82 17:25, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Its a unique word, it deserves an article Huzzahmaster018 20:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

If it was a particularly _notable_ word, it might deserve an article. But if it keeps you guys off the streets it's probably fulfilling some wider function. Matt Whyndham 17:48, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
"Hosannah" is more notable. Yet there is no page for it. Fuzzform (talk) 02:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Hosannah. Potatoswatter (talk) 15:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I am certainly glad that there is a page for this word. -B --75.146.48.82 04:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Me too, I just searched for it and was glad it is there. - Daniel 137.226.36.145 11:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huzzah vs. Hurrah

I was startled that "Huzzah" has its own page, while "Hurrah" simply redirected me back to "Huzzah". I was under the impression that Huzzah originated as a mocking corruption of the word Hurrah or Hooray. The Alexander Pope quote seems to follow the same line, as it refers to the vocalization of "stupid starers" as a "loud huzza". -B--75.146.48.82 05:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)