(Credit: Lorraine O’Sullivan / Fox) Those celebs include singer JoJo and TV personality Kelly Osbourne, who both appeared in the season premiere, as well as still-to-come contestants such as Krakowski’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt co-star Tituss Burgess (she teases that they sing a song together during his episode), the Spice Girls’ Mel B and The Facts of Life alum Kim Fields. “The celebrities came all the way to Ireland, and they really put themselves on the line,” Krakowski says. One change this year, however, is that the show has added familiar faces-stars from film, TV, music, and sports face off against one another. To write “deejay” and it caught on.For the second season of Fox‘s revival of the iconic game show Name That Tune, emcee Jane Krakowski and bandleader Randy Jackson once again welcome everyday folks trying to go home with an abundance of cash and prizes by guessing songs from pretty much every genre. This for MC and deejay has a completely different meaning than what we That the acronym becomes so successful and well-accepted that people startĪnd they think that is a word: emcee, that means “the guy who sort of runs Putting all this together may explain how new generations have changed and switched it up to end up with phonetical spelling.į answers to this question include this from CyanoticWasp: Hip-hop and rap is characterised by creative lyrical wordplay, and in addition to abbreviating master of ceremonies -> MC -> emcee, you'll see disc jockey -> DJ -> deejay.Īnother important part of hip-hop is individuality and rejection of the status quo. That's why they rarely become dominant - if they did, they'd no longer have the slight "edginess" that justified using them in the first place. lang, etc.).Įffectively, we like them because they suggest we're part of a "counter-culture", kicking against the bland orthodoxy of correct spelling and grammar. I think for the rest, it's a mild form of "linguistic subversion" (cf Old Skool, honest injun, Windoze, k.d. We work in close partnership with event managers and organisers on one of the most critical elements of an event, so it is one less thing you have to worry about. Turning to OP's specific question (why does the "phonetic spelling" form exist at all?), I would say okay is a special case for the reasons given above. I mean, even my emcee name is better than theirs (which I wont disclose but you can trust its better). Hand-picked, highly trained EMCEES ensure meticulous execution of your event. are bored with "deejay", but still like using the technique on their own names. I assume people calling themselves dj Pee Tee, dj Jay Kay, etc. Others, such as teevee (TV, television), deejay, (DJ, disc jockey), See-Threepio (C-3PO, Star Wars robot) are easily understood, but the spelled-out versions aren't as popular as the initialisms. By far the most common is okay, which one of a very few where the longer "phonetic spelling" form occurs more often than the short form (possibly because people aren't sure whether "ok" should be in capitals or not, and they're not sure what it stands for anyway).Ī couple more where we very often see the longer form are emcee (MC, Master of Ceremonies)) and Dubya (ex-president George W Bush). There aren't actually very many in common use. But it seems to have no currency as yet, and personally I much prefer acronomatopoeia as suggested by ELU's in a comment to that question. Per answer in this related question, the coinage vocologue was proposed for such words over a decade ago.
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