Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah

The Chinese words for 5 and 1 are transliterated wu and yi. However, the initial consonants are just to indicate that the vowel begins a syllable and are not pronounced -- so the numbers sound like "oo" and "ee," respectively. Thus, thinking about the number 51 made me think of the David Seville song "Witch Doctor," with its "Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah" chorus, so I gave it a listen. The first result on YouTube was the Chipmunks version:

Immediately after listening to that, I clicked for a random /x/ thread and got this one. This was the lead image:

It says "THE VVITCH" -- with the capital W written in the old style, as VV. Spelled this way, the word now includes VI, the Roman numerals for 5 and 1. I believe the ancient Romans would have pronounced these two letters the same as the Chinese numbers: "oo" and "ee."

There's also a certain resemblance to my last name -- TycHoniEVICH -- and in fact I used that old-fashioned W in the header image on one of my old blogs, from 2009.

I guess Debbie likely knows where that comes from.

"Oo-ee" also maked me think of the Seinfeld episode discussed in "Koko the monkey with no tail." After George Costanza receives the nickname Koko, after "that monkey that could read sign language," his co-workers give him a jersey with 00 on it. Jerry thinks it's "double zero," but George clarifies that it means "oo, as in oo-oo-ah-ah!"