Bolten: White House Must Regain Its 'Mojo' - Yahoo! News
Dude, is Josh Bolten reading my blog?
sparkle does and she's picked up my use of "mojo" too.
I'd feel trendy if it wasn't for the fact that I'm shamelessly plagerizing Mike Meyers.
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So, what did "mojo" mean before you used it for what you used it? It wasn't one of the words covered in my English course... ;)
Oh, in the Austin Powers movies he uses it to refer to his um...sexual prowess, or rather that which makes Austin Powers the great international man of mystery that he is. :-)
For a more academic explanation check out this from wordorigins.org:
"Mojo is from Black English, first recorded in the mid-1920s. It is common throughout the South. The earliest recorded usages are in reference to the blues and jazz music. The meaning has always been magic, charm, or amulet or more broadly the power and influence derived from such a supernatural source.
It is probably African in origin. Gullah (the dialect of the South Carolina Atlantic islands) has the word moco meaning witchcraft or magic. And the Fulani language of Africa has the word moco'o meaning a shaman."
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