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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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