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>>noun followed<<
That's what I thought too.
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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?
----- Words fail me. (Turnabout is fair play.)
----- Words fail me. (Turnabout is fair play.)
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>>>Yahoo is Swift's corruption of Jehu, a king of Israel, the son of Jehoshaphat.
Can you explain that deaconb? I don't see why that would be.
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J=Y (as in Jehova/Yaweh)
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>>>Yahoo is Swift's corruption of Jehu, a king of Israel, the son of Jehoshaphat.
Can you explain that deaconb? I don't see why that would be.
J=Y (as in Jehova/Yaweh)
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No, no, not at all Insel. I can grasp what he's saying, I just don't understand why the leap was made to say that this is what Swift did.
Why would we assume that Swift corrupted the name Jehu to create yahoo?
It sound like one of those explanations that people use when they try to explain a word by saying it used to be an acronym for something, but you find it really wasn't.
Was Swift well-known for flipping through the bible to find words to corrupt and invent meanings for? Maybe he was, I don't know, I don't read Swift.
Maybe it is my perverse need to, (arrgh, what's the word in English for "décortiquer"?) ... need to sort things out until it makes sense in my mind.
This one doesn't seem to make sense, so I asked.
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According to google, décortiquer translates "to peel". Maybe you mean to scrutinize, to parse...?
As to your actual question, all I can say is it's good.
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looking at the scriture quote, and thinking about bel's question, were "mad drivers' or hurried, inconsiderate, or hurried scatter-brains called or likened to Jahu? (and this is perhaps why Swift made a race in one of the lands Gulliver 'travelled" to Yahoo's?
we still say "he has the patience of Job" --were careless or hasty people likened to Jaho? (he dashed about like Jaho?) is this an expression that has simple fallen from use? --or one that was transformed by Gullivers travels from Jaho to Yahoo?
there are still, seen in print, reference to farthings. (a coin i remember, but most of the world doesn't)
and sou--(an old low value coin of France) is still used in crossword puzzles, even if "i don't give a sou!" is pretty rare.
Kids in US schools still learn about the MAINE--(and i think of MAINE first when presented with Remember the_______--though the more common answer is Alamo
but very few (how sad) know who to remember when The Rueben James is mentioned. things fall from collective memory.
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> arrgh, what's the word in English for "décortiquer"?
grok?
(and ain't International Speak Like a Pirate Day coming up?)
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