{"id":10717,"date":"2014-12-10T19:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10717"},"modified":"2014-12-10T19:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:23:40","slug":"pufflings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10717","title":{"rendered":"Pufflings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/puffling.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" height=\"232\" alt=\"A puffling\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other day I discovered that a young puffin is known as a <strong>puffling<\/strong>, which I really like the sound of.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few other words that include the <em>-ling<\/em> suffix that are commonly used: sibling, duckling, underling, earthling, seedling, yearling (an animal that is between one and two years old) &#8211; can you think of others?<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty more on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/w\/index.php?title=Category:English_words_suffixed_with_-ling&#038;pageuntil=SHARPLING%0Asharpling#mw-pages\">Wiktionary<\/a>, though few are in common use, as far as I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I discovered that a young puffin is known as a puffling, which I really like the sound of. There are a few other words that include the -ling suffix that are commonly used: sibling, duckling, underling, earthling, seedling, yearling (an animal that is between one and two years old) &#8211; can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","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=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}