{"id":3286,"date":"2015-01-29T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T06:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T10:52:30","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-brouhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-brouhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Brouhaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does <em>brouhaha<\/em>\u00a0mean?<\/p>\n<p>It is a noun and means a\u00a0noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/GTY_ukraine_protests_sk_131204_16x9_992.jpg\" width=\"536\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u02c8\/bro\u035eo\u2032h\u00e4-h\u00e4\u2032\/<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n[brou\u00b7ha\u00b7ha]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naplesreporting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angry-court-reporter1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some etymologists think the word is onomatopoeic (imitating a sound) in origin, but others believe it comes from the Hebrew phrase &#8220;b\u0101r\u016bkh habb\u0101\u2019,&#8221; meaning &#8220;blessed be he who enters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although we borrowed our spelling and meaning of &#8220;brouhaha&#8221; directly from French in the late 19th century, etymologists have connected the French derivation to that frequently recited Hebrew phrase, distorted to something like &#8220;brouhaha&#8221; by worshipers whose knowledge of Hebrew was limited. Thus, once out of the synagogue, the word first meant &#8220;a noisy confusion of sound&#8221; &#8212; a sense that was later extended to refer to any tumultuous and confused situation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/article2731323.ece\/alternates\/s615\/CITY.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A\u00a0<em>brouhaha<\/em>\u00a0erupted over her statements about the president.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s been a lot of\u00a0<em>brouhaha<\/em>\u00a0in the city about the prime minister&#8217;s decision to raise taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does brouhaha\u00a0mean? It is a noun and means a\u00a0noisy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1335,182,234,199,356,1339,476,1212,166,1336,1337,1338],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-brouhaha","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-french","tag-hebrew","tag-interesting-word","tag-january-2015","tag-learn","tag-noisy","tag-overexcited","tag-response","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}