{"id":12767,"date":"2016-08-21T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2016-08-21T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T09:42:53","slug":"a-hooley-of-ukeists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12767","title":{"rendered":"A Hooley of Ukeists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ukulele<\/p>\n

I’m having a great time at the Ukulele Hooley<\/a> this weekend, so I thought I’d look into some ukulele-related words.<\/p>\n

There are various possible words for people who play the ukulele:<\/p>\n

– Ukulele player
\n– Uker
\n– Ukist
\n– Ukeist
\n– Ukulist
\n– Ukulelist
\n– Ukuleleist
\n– Ukulelian
\n– Uke-phreak
\n– Ukester
\n– Ukestrator
\n– Ukeleler<\/p>\n

There are also words for things ukulele-related: ucal (based on duke\/ducal), or ukel (based on yokel).<\/p>\n

Sources: forum.ukuleleunderground.com<\/a> and MetaFilter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Then there are some words, which I just made up, for what ukulele players do, i.e. play the ukulele: uke, ukelize, ukify. Can you come up with any others?<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/p>\n

I sang one my songs, Spollagyn son tey \/ Chips for tea<\/a>, in the open mic session last might (see photo above). I usually sing it unaccompanied, and messed it up a bit at the start, but it went okay after that. I was also singing it from memory, which is fine when I’m just singing, but when I’m play the ukulele at the same time, it’s a lot more challenging, and definitely needs more practice.<\/p>\n

So what would you call a group of ukulele players?<\/p>\n

A strum, a hooley, or something else?<\/p>\n

Suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n

Other collective words for musician can be found at: https:\/\/thesession.org\/discussions\/27892<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re in the Dublin area today, why not come along to a free concert in the People’s Park in D\u00fan Laoghaire this afternoon from 12pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m having a great time at the Ukulele Hooley this weekend, so I thought I’d look into some ukulele-related words. There are various possible words for people who play the ukulele: – Ukulele player – Uker – Ukist – Ukeist – Ukulist – Ukulelist – Ukuleleist – Ukulelian – Uke-phreak – Ukester – Ukestrator – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,29,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","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=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}