{"id":10571,"date":"2014-10-16T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T14:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T14:38:27","slug":"we-need-more-ning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10571","title":{"rendered":"We need more ning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at choir one of the songs we were singing ended with the line &#8220;in the mor-ning&#8221;, with the mor and ning of morning clearly separated and on different notes. One of the tenors made a joke that we needed more ning in the morning, which appealed to me, and I wondered what ning might be and why we&#8217;d need more of it. I also wondered if ning is a word in any other language, and what it might mean.<\/p>\n<p>So we need more ning in the morning and evening when lightning is adorning the darkening sky, and warnings of yawning are lessening.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more nings see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhymer.com\/RhymingDictionaryLast\/morning.html\">http:\/\/www.rhymer.com\/RhymingDictionaryLast\/morning.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of nings in Mandarin Chinese:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u62e7 [\u64f0] (n\u00edng) = to twist; wring; pinch; tweak<br \/>\n&#8211; \u51dd (n\u00edng) = to congeal<br \/>\n&#8211; \u5b81 [\u5be7] (n\u00edng) = peaceful; tranquil<br \/>\n&#8211; \u72de [\u7370] (n\u00edng) = ferocious (of facial expression), as in (n\u00edngxi\u00e0o) = sardonic smile<br \/>\n&#8211; \u62e7 [\u64f0] (n\u01d0ng) = to screw; differ; disagree<br \/>\n&#8211; \u5b81 [\u5be7] (n\u00ecng) = rather; would rather; surname<br \/>\n&#8211; \u4f5e (n\u00ecng) = to flatter; toady<br \/>\n&#8211; \u62e7 [\u64f0] (n\u00ecng) = pigheaded<br \/>\n&#8211; \u6cde [\u6fd8] (n\u00ecng) = muddy<\/p>\n<p>What about in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at choir one of the songs we were singing ended with the line &#8220;in the mor-ning&#8221;, with the mor and ning of morning clearly separated and on different notes. One of the tenors made a joke that we needed more ning in the morning, which appealed to me, and I wondered what ning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}