The word "ballyhoo" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a lot of noise or activity, often designed to attract attention. For example, "The carnival had a lot of ballyhoo, with games and music competing for attention."
Within the motoring world, it will be the cause for much ballyhoo and dewy-eyed nostalgia.
Having been a staunch defender of NATO, he now says that there is also a case for closer EU co-operation on defence.In this section Pass the parcel Alpha plus Singing in the rain Roadblock There is no alternative Silicon ballyhoo A long-term job Not apple pie Just let's get stuck in ReprintsNo matter how you spin it, Pörtschach was a setback for Mr Blair's plan to tweak Europe Britain's way.
The protectionist ballyhoo against outsourcing and the jobs lost in America and Europe will be replaced by concerns about the quality of service, the security of data and the sky-high rates of staff attrition in Indian call centres.
Overshadowed by the ballyhoo over the referendum, the first satellite built in Scotland, UKube-1 (pictured below), was launched.
It is still uncertain whether their hopes will be realised.In this section Pass the parcel Alpha plus Singing in the rain Roadblock There is no alternative Silicon ballyhoo A long-term job Not apple pie Just let's get stuck in ReprintsBeyond the bureaucracy of stalemate there is renewed fear on the streets.
Nevertheless, amid all the glitz and ballyhoo at the opening of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week, there are plenty of gloomy faces.
Since 1996, when, with much ballyhoo, it was floated on stockmarkets in Budapest, London and Luxembourg, its share price has bombed.
It is possible that Italy could find a way of following the lead of countries such as Poland and the Netherlands, which have withdrawn troops amid much ballyhoo, but then quietly returned many of them as "instructors".It was also clear that the prime minister had not consulted his ministers before his television announcement.
After all the ballyhoo about the United States at last beginning to pay some of the $2.3 billion it owes the UN, Mr Bush's own party has thrown a spanner in the works.Back in 1999, Congress passed the Helms-Biden act, which promised to pay $1 billion in arrears, subject to various UN reforms.
Then, for no good reason other than "ballyhoo", Welles cuts to chorus girls.
In this giddy atmosphere, it fell, oddly enough, to Arum, arguably the pound-for-pound champion of ballyhoo, to inject a sobering note of historical perspective.
