Spoilers for Thursday 29th May 2025 (Series 91, Heat 104)
Posted: Fri May 30, 2025 12:40 pm
Susie allowed HOORAYS, slightly controversially. See Apterous ticket here if you can. Copied and pasted from the ticket (thanks Fiona):
Philip suggested in the ticket that HOORAY is missing (erroneously) from the HURRAH entry, which is there as a noun and verb. But we can't assume that and it's not as if Susie has a separate dictionary with the title "What the dictionary would be if there were no mistakes". Susie doesn't have privileged knowledge. So if it looks like a mistake, it's not the right thing to do to start thinking of obscure reasons why the decision should be seen as correct.
Can you pluralise an exclamation? I don't mean in some philosophical sense. I mean, is it a rule?hooray
Pronunciation: /hʊˈreɪ/
exclamation
1
used to express joy or approval:
This book has won all sorts of prizes. Hooray!
hooray for getting up late on Sunday, and doing absolutely nothing
2Australian and New Zealand English
goodbye:
‘Hooray George, promise you'll come back.’
Synonyms
Origin
late 19th century (in hooray (sense 2 of the interjection)): variant of hurrah.
Philip suggested in the ticket that HOORAY is missing (erroneously) from the HURRAH entry, which is there as a noun and verb. But we can't assume that and it's not as if Susie has a separate dictionary with the title "What the dictionary would be if there were no mistakes". Susie doesn't have privileged knowledge. So if it looks like a mistake, it's not the right thing to do to start thinking of obscure reasons why the decision should be seen as correct.