Fo 'Shizzle

In what seems like a never ending quest to humiliate myself (see number 23 from brighton post) I've decided to share another mostly thought based pastime of mine with the wider world (also known as Tim and Sam)

I'm quite a fan of using the 'izzle' suffix when thinking out things to say and then occasionally slipping it in to conversation. This doesn't stem from any real desire to be cool, but rather from the amusement of playing the kind of word game that I did as a kid, which is now culturally acceptable amongst the elitists of cool and 'ard who would never give the time of day to most of my other pastimes. The other thing I like about doing it is that I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

A few of my favourite uses:

Chizzle my bizzle mizzle = Cheers, my best mate

Joe Bizzle in the Hizzle = Joe B in the House

I do like getting into more elongizzle and nonsencizzle sentizzles that confizzle most dizzles who hizzle them, which makes them more fizzle for mizzle ya dizzle? Here's some shizzle from Wikipizzle on the subjizzle...

"Izz" infix usage

Although there are no hard-and-fast rules governing its usage, in general, the izz infix technique is performed by inserting izz, usually after a word's last pre-vowel consonant in its final syllable without deleting any letters.

Examples: minute becomes minizzute, and Kazakhstan becomes Kazakhstizzan. One-syllable words generally translate better with this technique: cream becomes crizzeam, for example.

It can also be performed by inserting izz at the beginning of a lone vowel: A becomes Izza and O becomes Izzo. This specific technique is implemented in Jay-Z's song "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" found on his album The Blueprint.

It can also be added onto the end of words, as in the phrase Fo' shizzle meaning for sure and televizzle meaning television.

Origins

The origins of '-iz' spawn from the postwar harlem renaissance when little black girls used to stand on the street and jump rope, making up nursery rhymes on the fly. Sometimes the words wouldn't fit the measure and so they would use '-iz', or doubling letters or syllables in words to make it fit the measure.

While Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z are credited for popularizing these techniques in the early 2000s, previous artists used them or similar forms earlier.

Shizzle

Shizzle is a rap slang word for "sure", coined by E-40 and popularized by rap star Snoop Dogg. It has been adopted by several rappers and reggae deejays and is commonly used as: fo' shizzle as in, "for sure", often paired with "my nizzle" as in, "my nigga". This pairing became popular after Snoop Dogg used it in his song, "What's My Name (Part 2)" on his Album Tha Last Meal. At the beginning of the song, Snoop talks over the beat:

Izzle kizzle, fo' shizzle

My nizzle, what you sizzle?

Fo' shizzle bizzle, ha ha

(Lyrics)

Snoop Dogg himself probably did not expect the phrase "Fo' shizzle my nizzle" to gain such popularity.^{[citation needed]} First, the phrase is broken by a long pause on the track itself, suggesting that Snoop himself considered "Izzle kizzle, fo' shizzle" to be one phrase ("It's okay, for sure") and "My nizzle, what you sizzle?" to be another ("My nigga, what you say?"). Snoop's laughter at the end of the blurb further suggests that the whole intro was just meant to be a joke, albeit one that caught on quite broadly.

A simple example is translating the word "house", to become "hizzouse".

An example of a sentence using this technique of slang is:

• This new doggyfizzle televizzle gon' be off the hizzle, fo shizzle.

• Translation: This new Snoop Dogg television show is going to be off the hook (meaning great), for sure.

The song Double Dutch Bus, written by Frankie Smith originally spawned the use of 'izzle' as a suffix for words. While used in its purest form and true meaning as listed above, izzle as a suffix was rarely used, with exceptions occurring in a song now and then.^{[verification needed]} But as the pop and rap scene grew increasingly successful, the phrase became quite popular.^{[verification needed]} Those who heard the phrase, not understanding its meaning, often misinterpreted it, and further spread it without fully understanding it.^{[verification needed]}

This has led to the use of Shizzle to mean "s***", in its slang form meaning "cool", to replace any noun in popular speech, much like "shizznit", as in "my shizzle's hella fizzle, yo." Such terms can be used in slightly more polite company, or to get past censors on TV or radio.

"Shizzle my Nizzle" has also become a popular phrase to express surprise in New Zealand, popularised by Glen Browne who is also the author of the wildly popular Diggy Dr Brzay's word of the Dzay

I think also that on of my biggest influences in liking this is the classic Orange cinema add with Snoop Dog himself going up against the Orange crew.

"Let's roll y'all" - love it!

Word of the post:Redundant –adjective

1. characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
2. being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural: a redundant part.