{"id":12657,"date":"2016-07-28T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12657"},"modified":"2016-07-28T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:59:59","slug":"les-chuchoteuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12657","title":{"rendered":"Les chuchoteuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lindsay<\/p>\n

On Rue Staint-Paul in Vieux Montr\u00e9al there’s a statue of three women having a gossip. It’s known as ‘Les chuchoteuses<\/strong>‘<\/a> or ‘The whisperers’. It’s also known as the “fat ladies talking statue”. It’s by Rose-Aim\u00e9e B\u00e9langer, a sculptor from Ontario, and was installed as part of a 2006 initiative to highlight some of Old Montreal\u2019s forgotten spaces.<\/p>\n

The word chuchoteuses<\/em> [\u0283y\u0283\u0254t\u00f8:z] comes from chuchoter<\/em> [\u0283y.\u0283\u0254.te] (to whisper; to rustle), which is of imitative origin. Related words include chuchoterie<\/em> (whispering), chuchotis<\/em> (faint whispering), chuchotement<\/em> (a whisper \/ murmur, rustling).<\/p>\n

I like the sound of this word, and of the words for whisper in other languages:<\/p>\n

– Italian \/ Portuguese \/ Spanish: sussurro<\/em>, from Latin susurrus<\/em> \u200e(a humming, whispering)
\n– German: Fl\u00fcstern<\/em>
\n– Dutch: fluistering<\/em>
\n– Welsh: sibrwd<\/em><\/p>\n

What about in other languages?<\/p>\n

The photo is one I took while exploring Montr\u00e9al with Linsday Dow of Linsday Does Languages<\/a>, who features in it.<\/p>\n

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a> and Reverso<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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