{"id":10700,"date":"2014-12-01T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2014-12-01T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:30:30","slug":"merched-nadolig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10700","title":{"rendered":"Merched Nadolig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I was chatting with a Czech friend in Welsh and describing a recent trip to London. One of the things I mentioned was visiting the Christmas market in Hyde Park, although instead  of saying <em>marchnad Nadolig<\/em> (Christmas market) I said <em>merched Nadolig<\/em> (Christmas girls\/women), much to my friend&#8217;s amusement. I realised my mistake almost immediately, but we spent the rest of the day joking about <em>merched Nadolig<\/em>. There might possibly have been some interference from the Spanish word for market, <em>mercado<\/em>, in my head, though I haven&#8217;t been using much Spanish recently.<\/p>\n<p>Do you sometimes get similar-sounding words mixed up like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I was chatting with a Czech friend in Welsh and describing a recent trip to London. One of the things I mentioned was visiting the Christmas market in Hyde Park, although instead of saying marchnad Nadolig (Christmas market) I said merched Nadolig (Christmas girls\/women), much to my friend&#8217;s amusement. I realised my mistake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","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=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}