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    What is a Hoya?

    Question #29764. Asked by Georgetown.

    McGruff

    		Assuming from your moniker, you refer to the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team.

    "And then there are the Georgetown Hoyas. The Georgetown mascot is a bulldog, but Hoya doesn't mean bulldog. The story is that the Georgetown football team's defense was once nicknamed the Stonewalls; fans would yell 'What rocks (they are)!', which they translated into Latin and Greek as 'Hoya saxa!' And the name stuck. So the Hoyas are apparently the Whats. Although I'm told Hoya is not a very good transliteration of the Greek word."
    http://www.kith.org/logos/words/upper3/QQQuakers.html

    Mar 14 03, 9:39 AM

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