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Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu May 19 12:18:06 EDT 2005
Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> Hi All--
>
> Peter Hansen wrote:
>
>>Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>>
>>>Robert Kern wrote:
>>>
>>>>dict.org says _forums_. I used _fora_, but I'm silly.
>>>>
>>>
>>>It also says "appendixes" and "indexes" are OK. Yahoos.
>>
>>Should that be "Yaha"?
>>
>
>
> <g> Nope. I appreciate the sentiment, but "Yahoo" is neither Latin nor
> Greek. Instead, it was invented by Jonathan Swift for _Gulliver's
> Travels_, published in 1726; since it is a made-up English word, it
> follows the rules of English.
>
Yeeha, possibly?
regards
Steve
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