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Jamboree

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A jamboree is any large, lively, often noisy gathering or festive celebration and is applied to music jamborees, sales jamborees and motor racing jamborees. The term has been adopted for large gatherings of Scouts and Girl Guides.

Closing ceremony of the 20th World Scout Jamboree, held in Thailand in 2002/2003

Etymology

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) identifies the term Jamboree as coming from American slang, identifying a use in the New York Herald in 1868 and in Irish writing later in the 19th century.[1] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary indicates the etymology of the term is "19th century, origin unknown". Some linguists believe it is a playful blend of "jabber" and "shivaree," a French folk tradition involving noisy, mocking celebrations.

Early 20th century use of the term refer to "a lavish or boisterous celebration or party".[2][3] Poet Robert W. Service used the term in a poem, Athabaska Dick, published in 1912: "They are all a-glee for the jamboree, and they make the Landing ring".[4] Lucy Maud Montgomery used the term three times in 1915 in Anne of the Island, a book set in the 1880s. For example, "There was quite a bewildering succession of drives, dances, picnics and boating parties, all expressively lumped together by Phil under the head of 'jamborees'."[5]

Other claimed possible origins for the term range from Hindi to the Swahili word for hello, Jambo![6][7], to Native American languages.[8][9]

The word jamboree in English is used as a borrowed foreign word, with the ending -ree. The word jamboree is both a noun and a transitive verb, with a direct action of the root word jambo.[10] For example, an attendee of a jambo is a jamboree.[dubious – discuss]

Scout Jamborees

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The term jamboree was adopted for large national and international gatherings of Scouts and/or Girl Guides. There are also national and continental jamborees held around the world with varying frequency. Many of these events will invite and attract Scouts from overseas.

The first International Jamboree of Scouts (retrospectively called the 1st International Jamboree and, later still, the 1st World Jamboree) was held in 1920 in the United Kingdom. Many, at this first "jamboree" did not fully capture the spirit of this then-new concept. At the first World Jamboree at Olympia, London, in 1920, Robert Baden-Powell said:

"People give different meanings for this word, but from this year on, jamboree will take a specific meaning. It will be associated to the largest gathering of youth that ever took place."[11]

Since then, there have been twenty-four other Scout World Jamborees, hosted in various countries, generally every four years. The 26th World Jamboree is to be held in Poland in 2027.

The average Scout Life of a boy is a comparatively short one, and it is good for each generation of Scouts to see at least one big rally, since it enables the boy to realize his membership of a really great brotherhood, and at the same time brings him into personal acquaintance with brother Scouts of other districts and other countries.

— Robert Baden-Powell, (September 1932)

Within the Scout Movement, it is often mistakenly believed that the word jamboree was coined by Baden-Powell[2] but, as indicated above, the word jamboree was in prior use. Baden-Powell was once asked why he chose "jamboree" as the name for large gatherings of Boy Scouts. He replied, "What else would you call it?"[citation needed] The Celtic mythologist, Robert Graves suggested, in 1954, that Baden-Powell might have known the word through his regiment's Irish links, rather than from U.S. slang.[12]

International

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National

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Olave Baden-Powell coined the term jamborese to refer to the lingua franca used between Scouts of different languages and cultural habits, that develops when diverse Scouts meet, that fosters friendship and understanding between Scouts of the world. Sometimes the word "jamborette" is used to denote smaller, either local or international, gatherings.[15]

Other Scout gatherings[relevant?]

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Other large gatherings are held by Scout organizations, geared towards a particular age groups. Examples of these large gatherings include:

  • Moot – a camp or a gathering of Rovers
  • Venture – a gathering of young people in the Venture (Senior Scout) section
  • Indaba – a camp or a gathering of Adult Scout leaders
  • Agoonoree – a camp of Scouts with special needs
  • COMDECA – acronym for Community Development Camp, a large gathering of young people, implementing community development projects[citation needed]
  • camporee - a local or regional gathering of Scout units for a period of camping and common activities.[16] Similar to a camporee, a jamboree occurs less often and draws units from the entire nation or world.[17][18][19]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "jamboree, n.". OED Online. Oxford University Press. September 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Jamboree". The Concise Oxford University Dictionary (10th ed.). Oxford University Press. 1999.
  3. ↑ "Jamboree". Collins English Dictionary (10th Edition – Complete & Unabridged ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 2 November 2015. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Service, Robert W. (1912). "Athabaska Dick". Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and company.
  5. ↑ Montgomery, L.M. (1915). Anne of the Island. Retrieved 8 March 2006.
  6. ↑ Prins, A.H.J. (1961). "Swahili the Swahili-speaking peoples of Zanzibar and the East African Coast (Arabs, Shirazi, and Swahili)". In Forde, Daryll (ed.). Ethnographic Survey of Africa. London, UK: International African Institute.
  7. ↑ Prins, A.H.J. (1970). A Swahili Nautical Dictionary. Preliminary Studies in Swahili Lexicon. Vol. 1. Dar es Salaam.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Ashton, E. O. (1947). Swahili Grammar: Including intonation. Longman House. ISBN 0-582-62701-X. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  9. ↑ Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J. (1993). Swahili and Sabaki: a linguistic history. University of California Publications in Linguistics. Vol. 121.
  10. ↑ Hopper, Paul J; Thompson, Sandra A (June 1980). "Transitivity in grammar and discourse" (PDF). Language. 56 (2): 251–299. doi:10.1353/lan.1980.0017. S2CID 144215256. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  11. ↑ Wilson, John S. (1959). Scouting Round the World (First ed.). Blandford Press. p. 238.
  12. ↑ Graves, Robert (1956). The Crowning Privilege. The Clark Lectures, 1954–1955. Doubleday. p. 199. LCCN 56-6542.
  13. ↑ "The Baltic Jamboree 2022 "Back to the Balts" is going to be held in Lithuania! – Naujienos | Skautai – geresniam pasauliui". Skautai. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  14. ↑ "Scouts - Lithuanian Jamboree "Between Three Waters"". www.scouts.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  15. ↑ Wilson, John S. (1959). Scouting Round the World (First ed.). Blandford Press. p. 122.
  16. ↑ "Camporee". U.S. Scouting Service Project.
  17. ↑ "US Jamboree". U.S. Scouting Service Project. Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  18. ↑ "The Summit, US Jamboree". BSA.
  19. ↑ "World Jamboree". Scouting.org. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
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