The word "jamboree" is correct and usable in written English.
It is primarily used to refer to an informal gathering with exciting activities, such as a festival or a gathering of youth organizations. For example, "The annual jamboree was filled with singing, dancing, and good times."
This summer, the UK played host to its biggest arts jamboree ever, a dizzying 12-week festival that served as the culmination of a four-year Cultural Olympiad.
Related: Eurovision Song Contest invites Australia to join 'world's biggest party' Graham Norton, who will once again present the UK's coverage of the jamboree, was unimpressed, however, declaring: "It's a nonsense.
Yet in between the traditional trappings of a jamboree, Kazimierz Piechowski, or Kazik as he likes to be called, will tell them a story few in the UK have heard – how, during Nazi occupation, scouts their age were murdered in the streets, while others like him were sent to concentration camps to witness the horror of Hitler's Final Solution.
The Championship play-off jamboree is yet to provide a goal for punters who are breathlessly informed each year that a £90m bonanza awaits the side that claims the prize of being the last to clinch promotion into the Premier League.
British films had dominated the shortlists for the Globes - once seen as a jamboree, but regarded now as a reliable guide to Oscar form - but neither Anthony Minghella's much-fancied The Talented Mr Ripley nor Neil Jordan's The End Of The Affair won anything.
Not by singing – although that would be fun – but by reading out the results of the nation's voting live from London for this Saturday's annual jamboree in Vienna.
Few Republicans mourned the forced compression of their jamboree into three days, thanks to Isaac.
Deals are struck, disagreements aired.MWC is the mobile industry's annual jamboree in Barcelona, organised by the GSMA, the network operators' trade association.
Mr Francis's descriptions of his visits to this spot, where 60,000 Emperors live in a "great penguin jamboree", add moments of sheer joy to this mesmerising and memorable book.
The conference will probably open next February with a grand jamboree in London.
In which case, the question "What is NATO for?" will resound even more insistently around Europe's chancelleries and parliaments and in the world beyond.The remarkable thing about the Bucharest jamboree was that awkward questions of that stamp were deafeningly absent from the agenda.
