514 GG Brouhaha. New Words. One Fell Swoop.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 29 April 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Last week, ESPN fired Curt Schilling because of offensive remarks he made on social media, and in his follow-up statement, Schilling referred to the brouhaha, but he misspelled the word as brew ha ha, like the name of a beerfest in my hometown. (Follow along on the website: http://j.mp/brouhaha-origin) Merriam-Webster added "athleisure" to the unabridged dictionary, but the editors had been watching the word for a while before they decided to add it. In a "Words We’re Watching” blog post in July of 2015, they wrote “'Athleisure' refers to casual clothing — like yoga pants, sweat pants, and hoodies — that are designed to be worn both for exercising and for doing (almost) everything else.” (Follow along on the website: http://j.mp/2016NewWords) Most people know that if you do something in one fell swoop, you do it all at once--as in, “I sat down last night and made my website in one fell swoop.” But what does "fell" mean? And who is swooping? (Follow along on the website: http://j.mp/one-fell-swoop) PODCAST AWARDS Nominate Grammar Girl for Best Education Podcast at http://PodcastAwards.com (They'll ask for the show URL. Use this: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl) SPONSORS http://Earnest.com/grammar http://weebly.com/grammar AMAZON AFFILIATE CODE http://quickanddirtytips.com/amazon E-BOOK: GRAMMAR GIRL'S QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING On sale for $2.99 through April: Kindle: http://amzn.to/1RRJDAe Nook: http://bit.ly/1qmUsBi FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl Snapchat: http://snapchat.com/add/thatgrammargirl Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl

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0:00.0	Grammar Girl here.
0:07.1	I'm Minion Foggedy and this week I have a quick and dirty tip about the word brujaha.
0:12.5	A meaty middle about new words in marium webstradictionaries and a tidbit about the phrase
0:18.2	one fell swoop.
0:20.9	Let's start with the brujaha.
0:23.6	Last week ESPN fired Kurt Schilling because of an offensive remark he made on social media.
0:30.4	And in his follow-up statement, Schilling referred to the brujaha, but he misspelled the
0:36.9	word as brujaha like laughter, like the name of a beer fest in my hometown, the brujaha.
0:46.9	In an article the next day, New York Times writer Daniel Victor threw some subtle shade
0:51.8	at Schilling by writing this sentence with starts with a quote from Schilling.
0:57.2	Quote this latest brujaha is beyond hilarious, unquote, he wrote of the brujaha, with
1:03.2	the misspelling in the quotation and the correct spelling in he wrote of the brujaha.
1:10.2	This incited a small round of delight on Twitter.
1:13.9	Eric Roshwe, for example, wrote, this might be my favorite sentence ever.
1:19.2	But brujaha is an odd word.
1:21.5	When I look at it, I can't immediately identify a root or origin.
1:25.6	So I decided to look it up.
1:28.3	Brujaha refers to a commotion or an uproar, and some sources call brujaha an imitative
1:35.1	word, meaning it represents the sounds you'd hear during a commotion or uproar.
1:41.6	Other sources say that in the middle ages, brujaha was a cry used by French-speaking
1:48.0	actors playing the devil.
1:51.0	Some say the cry was specific to players representing the devil disguised as clergy, and that
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