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Electrum Posted 15 years ago
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YAHOO

Long before Yahoo.com existed, yahoo was a fairly common derogatory in American English. In the dictionaries I've consulted, the pronunciation of the a is given as the a of father or the a of page. But all I ever heard was the a of cat. If you had said Yahhoo or yayhoo, you'd have been considered weird.

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Those pronunciations are regional variants. Who knows how Jonathan Swift pronounced it?

— Mister Micawber

  • Those pronunciations are regional variants.
  • Who knows how Jonathan Swift pronounced it?
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Those pronunciations are regional variants. Who knows how Jonathan Swift pronounced it?
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Mister MicawberThose pronunciations are regional variants. Who knows how Jonathan Swift pronounced it?
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Mister MicawberThose pronunciations are regional variants. Who knows how Jonathan Swift pronounced it?
Who cares? Does anyone wonde
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electrumBut all I ever heard was the a of cat.
I've never heard that pronunciation.

electrumIn the dictionaries I've consulted, the pronunciation of the a is given as the a of father
This is the only way I've ever heard it, with one exception.

electrumor the a of page.
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electrumDoes anyone wonder how Virgil said Aeneas?
A whole bevy of Latin scholars, I reckon. For that matter, anyone who's read the Aeneid even in English probably has.
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I read it in Latin, and I'd say EYE-NAY-AS, AS as in CASA, but in English I'd expect an Anglicized pronunciation. The Latin would jar on the nerves in the midst of Egnlish slurs and stutters.
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Maybe it's a generation gap. I'm 74.
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Not really. I'm 69. I don't slur and stutter yet, though!
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Ooops! I meant that for CalifJim,
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electrumMaybe it's a generation gap. I'm 74.
Maybe. I'm nowhere near 74, of course, and I neversay how many years I've been 39.
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