Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — “Hurrah!” [ARTICLE]

“Hurrah!”

An English scholar has been looking into the origin of the wprd “Hurrah.” He thinks “there can be no doubt that the Egyptian soldiers went into battle with the inspiring cheer of ‘Hooßa! Hooßa! HooRa!” and if the average questioning man asks why, he staggers him with this: Because Hooßa (in the tongue of the Thothmes and the Remeses) means “ ‘The King! The King! The King!’ yeh, more as ‘Ra’ means not one King, but also God and Man, the concentrated meaning of the cry would be —‘For God, King and Country!’ What more loyal, what more patriotic, what more devout?” What indeed?