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    From occam@occam@nowhere.nix to alt.usage.english on Sun Jun 28 09:53:37 2026
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    Apparently 'Emcee' is an English word, and Trump is Presidential material.

    Follow-up post tomorrow.
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  • From Hibou@vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid to alt.usage.english on Sun Jun 28 09:09:25 2026
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    Le 28/06/2026 |a 08:53, occam a |-crit :

    Apparently 'Emcee' is an English word, and Trump is Presidential material.

    Follow-up post tomorrow.


    Does being cloth-eared make one presidential material?

    Anyway, 'emcee' seems rare, even in AmE: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=emcee%3Aeng_us*30%2Cemcee%3Aeng_gb*30%2CMC%2CM.C.%2Chost%2Chostess%2Cmaster+of+ceremonies&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3>

    This search is ambiguous, of course, since there are other kinds of
    hosts and hostesses (and Emcees sometimes take the rap).

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  • From Charles Hope@clh@candehope.me.uk to alt.usage.english on Sun Jun 28 08:30:03 2026
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    On 28/06/2026 09:09, Hibou wrote:
    Le 28/06/2026 |a 08:53, occam a |-crit :

    Apparently 'Emcee' is an English word,


    Yes, It was the name of a character in the play "Cabaret"


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  • From richard@richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) to alt.usage.english on Sun Jun 28 10:27:08 2026
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    In article <nac281Fbch5U1@mid.individual.net>,
    occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
    Apparently 'Emcee' is an English word,

    A perfectly good word, and an excellent translation of "architriklinos"
    in John 2:9.

    -- Richard
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  • From occam@occam@nowhere.nix to alt.usage.english on Sun Jun 28 13:18:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.usage.english

    On 28/06/2026 12:27, Richard Tobin wrote:
    In article <nac281Fbch5U1@mid.individual.net>,
    occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
    Apparently 'Emcee' is an English word,

    A perfectly good word, and an excellent translation of "architriklinos"
    in John 2:9.


    "architriklinos" was the master of the banquet - so I'll accept 'master
    of ceremonies' as a good translation.

    However, if you accept Master of Ceremonies > MC > EMCEE as acceptable,
    them you should also accept EFFYOU as a comment. </smile>

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  • From occam@occam@nowhere.nix to alt.usage.english on Mon Jun 29 08:20:36 2026
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    On 28/06/2026 09:53, occam wrote:
    Apparently 'Emcee' is an English word, and Trump is Presidential material.

    Follow-up post tomorrow.

    WORDLE solution (28/06/2026) - EMCEE



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