{"id":12121,"date":"2016-02-26T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12121"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:36:41","slug":"dardledumdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12121","title":{"rendered":"Dardledumdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came across the wonderful word <strong>dardledumdue<\/strong>. It means &#8220;daydreamer&#8221; in East Anglian dialect (east of England), and its origin is uncertain. Perhaps it&#8217;s the type of nonsense words a daydreamer might sing or mumble while daydreaming [<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=uWKp52--eoYC&#038;pg=PA61&#038;lpg=PA61&#038;dq=dardledum-due&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=Vf5YXhhRB3&#038;sig=k0DTXHfKGWJT1PQNX_M1CuQzLPs&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjjybbwr5XLAhWJaxQKHbhOAxsQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&#038;q=dardledum-due&#038;f=false\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It also sounds like the kinds of &#8216;words&#8217; some Irish singers use when lilting &#8211; a way of singing tunes with made-up words.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lrHhDmPp2Zk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r16ch9oP2TI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does anything like this exist elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I came across the wonderful word dardledumdue. It means &#8220;daydreamer&#8221; in East Anglian dialect (east of England), and its origin is uncertain. Perhaps it&#8217;s the type of nonsense words a daydreamer might sing or mumble while daydreaming [source]. It also sounds like the kinds of &#8216;words&#8217; some Irish singers use when lilting &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,29,62,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-songs","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121","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=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}