{"id":11611,"date":"2015-08-28T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2015-08-28T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:00:07","slug":"pass-the-funny-dingdong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11611","title":{"rendered":"Pass the funny dingdong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/remotecontrol.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Remote control\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If someone asked you to &#8220;pass the funny dingdong&#8221;, would you know what they wanted?<\/p>\n<p>With the context that you are watching TV, you might have a better idea what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b066vwsb\">Fry&#8217;s English Delight<\/a>, a programme about language on BBC Radio Four, <strong>funny dingdong<\/strong> is one of the many ways of referring to the TV remote control. <\/p>\n<p>Others include blatter, zapper, blitter, kuhdumpfer, dimmer, mando, squirter, twanger, widget, pote-eator, splonker, tinky toot, wizz wizz, and plinky.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have other names for the remote control?<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting made-up words mentioned on the programme include <strong>gruglums<\/strong> &#8211; the bits left in the sink after you&#8217;ve done the washing up, and <strong>floordrobe<\/strong> &#8211; where teenagers file their clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone asked you to &#8220;pass the funny dingdong&#8221;, would you know what they wanted? With the context that you are watching TV, you might have a better idea what they wanted. According to Fry&#8217;s English Delight, a programme about language on BBC Radio Four, funny dingdong is one of the many ways of referring [&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-11611","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\/11611","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=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}