HIP! HE?! HIP! HURRAH!
TO THE EDITOE. Sir, —I do hope a real good old English cheer will be given*to -our Royal guests, not a,. Colonial one, which disgusts me more and more eveiy time I hear it, and which runs thus: " Hiphip, hurra! Hiphip hurra!" whereas the proper way for an Englishman to cheer' is: " Hip 1 Hip! Hip! Hurrah!" Three hips, not two, each, distinct from, not running into, the others, and the " rah" prolonged to four times the length of the "hur."—l am, etc., CHEER PROPERLY. Christchurch, June 17, 1901.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12533, 21 June 1901, Page 6
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