{"id":1182,"date":"2009-06-26T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2009-06-26T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T16:38:43","slug":"ramblage-and-recreation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Ramblage and recreation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/douglas_head.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"234\" alt=\"A photo of the Douglas Head lighthouse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today while exploring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/isleofman\/content\/panoramas\/douglas_head.shtml\">Douglas Head<\/a>, an rocky headland just south of Douglas, I came across a sign that explained that the area was developed for ramblage and recreation, and other things, in the 1870s. The word ramblage attracted my attention as I hadn&#8217;t seen it before. Maybe it&#8217;s an old version of rambling. Have you heard it before?<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few words describe the action of moving along on foot, including walk, ramble, amble, hike, ambulate, march, wander, shuffle, perambulate, plod, run, saunter, stride, stroll, trudge and tramp. I&#8217;ve read that in some languages, such as Spanish and French, verbs of motion don&#8217;t usually indicate the manner of motion. Is this true of other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today while exploring Douglas Head, an rocky headland just south of Douglas, I came across a sign that explained that the area was developed for ramblage and recreation, and other things, in the 1870s. The word ramblage attracted my attention as I hadn&#8217;t seen it before. Maybe it&#8217;s an old version of rambling. Have 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-1182","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\/1182","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=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}