Talk:Ahoy (greeting)

Possibly also a term/type of a vessel or boat

Today on the TV show, Jeopardy, we learned it may have also been a type of a boat or vessel. Original air-date was 4 July 2012 — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 02:02, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Or a Viking battle cry [1] — Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 02:12, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

How to pronounce?

Could some provide a international/phonetic approach to pronouncing this word? :) - Sara FB (talk) 00:12, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Is it "əˈhɔɪ"? 99.242.122.19 (talk) 18:21, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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No, Samuel Johnson didn't literally use the word

A reader ticket:2017110410005597 pointed out that the caption under the picture of Samuel Johnson states "Samuel Johnson use the word away in his writings in 1824". He was long dead on that date so that phrase isn't literally correct. As the text in the subsequent paragraph notes, the term. In the 1824 edition of his dictionary but obviously he wasn't doing the editing at that time. I'm not quite sure how best to make the change. Frankly it isn't clear to me that it is appropriate to use an image of Samuel Johnson to illustrate a fact about a dictionary associated with him, but I hope someone can find a way to either fix the caption or remove the entry.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:34, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

References

Lack of references in many affirmation. Borrowed in Czech from English, from the French "Oyez", etc.. Missing of references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.250.168.130 (talk) 05:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Wacky Czech and Slovak Explanations

Can we remove the wacky unsourced Czech and Slovak explanations? The one on Czech wikipedia is the one backed up by the Institute for Czech Language, that it got into the language through sailors, then subsequently spread to boaters, scouts and "tramps", or alternatively/additionally spread to boaters from German boaters who would have it from sailors. The unsourced explanations don't hold up to logic - for example prostitutes don't usually shout in the street about what diseases they have if they want to get more customers.

Mensaje

De otro número 2806:2F0:31C1:F10D:F003:4C7:CE6C:E156 (talk) 10:52, 30 April 2023 (UTC)