Actually, the expression of elation came second. If you remember Superman comic books, Clark Kent's boss, Perry White, was given to exclaming "Great Jehoshaphat!"

Yahoo is Swift's corruption of Jehu, a king of Israel, the son of Jehoshaphat.

2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehu

Hurray comes from hurrah, which comes from huzzah, which apparently comes from the middle English hisse, which means "hoist"! Snardles, there are a lot of meaningless sounds used as expletives, aren't there?

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Words fail me. (Turnabout is fair play.)


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Words fail me. (Turnabout is fair play.)