The word "bandwagon" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun used to refer to a popular movement or opinion, especially one that is seen as fashionable or trendy. For example, "The band's new single has caught on so quickly that it's become the latest bandwagon everyone is jumping on."
People have jumped on the bandwagon of blaming financial markets.
No. Jumping on the bandwagon and maximising media attention?
And I mean comprehensively: if you think it's bad now then just wait until the "internet of things" bandwagon really rolls.
Nevertheless, it is my policy to leave no bandwagon unjumped, and so here's my contribution to the unfolding brouhaha.
John Prescott and – God help us – Clare Short (talking nonsense on Sky News yesterday) have clambered on to the bandwagon.
But it will also widen the gaps between those who can jump on the bandwagon, and those who can't.
Tweeter John Hansen (@aboredauthor) was first to comment that perhaps Young Adult characters don't lead the most realistic lives... And, using the hashtag #VeryRealisticYA, Twitter users jumped on the bandwagon to explore several more likely outcomes for YA protagonists.
Amid signs of panic and recrimination among unionist ranks about the prospects of a yes vote on 18 September, the Observer has learned that a devolution announcement designed to halt the nationalist bandwagon is due to be made within days by the anti-independence camp.
Paul Kelly: The Australian (paywalled) Kevin Rudd is resurrected, Julia Gillard's career is destroyed and Rudd has launched a new crusade to halt the Tony Abbott bandwagon.
Deena Fidas, head of the Workplace Equality Program at the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT civil rights advocacy group, notes that this has, indeed, been the trend – and it's one that was set in place some 15 years before the marriage equality bandwagon got rolling.
And now Tony Abbott, despite ridiculing the idea at first ("Does he want to send them all out to work at the age of 11?" he asked), has jumped on the coding bandwagon.
