{"id":12570,"date":"2016-07-07T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12570"},"modified":"2016-07-07T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:22:02","slug":"budge-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12570","title":{"rendered":"Budge up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/budgeup.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"238\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Notice in local caf\u00e9 in Bangor\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/blueskybangor.co.uk\/\">caf\u00e9<\/a> where I had lunch today I saw a sign saying &#8220;Blue Sky tables are for sharing. Budge up and say Hi!&#8221; (see photo).<\/p>\n<p>I thought <strong>budge up<\/strong> sounding like a very British kind of thing to say. Is it used in other English-speaking countries? If not, how would you ask someone to move up?<\/p>\n<p>Budge comes from the French <em>bouger<\/em> (to move), from the Vulgar Latin <em>*bullic\u0101re<\/em>, frequentative of Latin <em>bull\u012bre<\/em> (to bubble, boil), from <em>bulla<\/em> (bubble; bubble-shaped object), from Gaulish, from Proto-Indo-European <em>*beu<\/em> \u200e(swelling) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/budge\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the caf\u00e9 where I had lunch today I saw a sign saying &#8220;Blue Sky tables are for sharing. Budge up and say Hi!&#8221; (see photo). I thought budge up sounding like a very British kind of thing to say. Is it used in other English-speaking countries? If not, how would you ask someone to [&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-12570","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\/12570","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=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}