The word "brouhaha" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean a loud commotion or a disturbance caused by a lot of people. For example: "After the announcement of the new regulations, there was a huge brouhaha as people debated their impact."
The right is just as susceptible to hair-trigger outrage, however – witness the brouhaha over what Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney-general, did or didn't mean to say about working-class people when she tweeted a photograph of a flag-draped house.
Nevertheless, it is my policy to leave no bandwagon unjumped, and so here's my contribution to the unfolding brouhaha.
Malkovich eyed my misery (much as he did the whole Nessun Dorma brouhaha) with laconic detachment, but underneath that seen-it-all exterior he could tell a fellow actor was suffering and he had decided to help.
The BBC might have anticipated a brouhaha.
The price of federal-funds futures suggests little chance of a rate cut from the Federal Reserve this year.Is all this brouhaha justified?
TODAY'S recommended economics writing: The core CPI-PCE inflation gap (Alphaville) Why the Baltic states are no model (Financial Times) Baltic brouhaha (Paul Krugman) The ECB and the riddle of the markets (Stephanie Flanders) What about inflation?
And more data are being crunched all the time, so it should not be long before the result is either confirmed or disproved.If it is disproved there will, after all the brouhaha, no doubt be a period of chagrin.
At the moment, despite the brouhaha they have created in some countries, genetically modified plants are primitive things.
AN UNPOPULAR budget, the botched handling of threatened petrol strikes, embarrassing reminders of the Conservatives' poshness even before the brouhaha over plans to tighten internet surveillance, March was the government's worst month in office.
But in all the brouhaha, it is easy to forget that the full name of the virus is HIV-1.
Though it affected the firm's share price for a fortnight, the seaweed brouhaha did not affect sales, he says.
