Talk:Wahoo

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Wahoo is also associated with The University of Virginia.

Wahoo is is also the sound made by a Christopher McCann (Crazy Legs) whilst sneezing

Wahoo is a nickname associated with the University of Virginia (UVA) . Visit the link to UVA's sports website.

Bad link, sorry : University Nicknames

Webster's Third New International Dictionary (unabridged) gives "[origin unknown]" after the fish name wahoo, and it lists the exclamation separately. Wikipedia should not pretend to confirm speculative etymologies. Joel (talk) 00:41, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

The Hawaiian Dictionary (1986) lists ʻono for 'delicious' (from earlier *kono), but ono for the fish (from earlier *ʻono. In the Hawaiian language ancestral *k changed to /ʻ/, then *t changed to /k/. In Polynesian languages, these two words are as different as English cone and tone. Joel (talk) 00:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)