Why do foxhunters say tally-ho?

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Why: On the fourfour recap of last week's "America's Next Top Model" finale (spoiler alert):

"Big Talley hug!"

I really might start shouting, "Talley hug!" every time I see a hot guy, much the way you might shout "tally -ho!" if you see a fox and you are a British hunter. That way he will know even from afar that I'm gay and can figure out what he wants to do about that in relative advance.

Answer: Theories:

• From old Norman Tya Hillaut, shouted by hunters when they found a deer, brought to England by William the Conqueror in 1066
• From Palestinian Arabic Tāl hum, "Come here," brought to England by men returning from the Crusades
  
• From French taille haut, "raise swords," a rallying cry of commanders on battlefields
• From French taïaut, used to excite hounds when hunting deer (1772)
• From French Thia-hilaud a qui forheur! which hunters shouted to encourage their dogs. It became the English "Tallio, hoix, hark, forward."

Source: Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia, Phrases.org.uk

The More You Know: Fox hunting (or fox chasing as it's called here, since the point of the game is the chase, not the kill) is known as venery. The word comes from Venus, the goddess of Love, from Latin vener- "desire, love" or "hunt" or "chase." I hope you see where this is going.

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