{"id":15279,"date":"2018-03-22T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:44:21","slug":"if-i-had-your-druthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15279","title":{"rendered":"If I had my druthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an email I received today, I saw the phrase &#8220;If I really had my druthers&#8221;, which puzzled me. I hadn&#8217;t come across the word <strong>druthers<\/strong> before, and had to look it up.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/druthers\">Wikitionary<\/a>, <strong>druthers<\/strong> [\u02c8dr\u028c\u00f0\u0259z] means &#8220;wishes, preferences, or ways&#8221; and is used informally in the USA. It comes from the the expression &#8220;I&#8217;d rather&#8221; (meaning &#8220;I would prefer to&#8221;), which is often pronounced &#8220;I druther&#8221; in some dialects.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/druthers\">Dictionary.com<\/a>, druthers first appeared in the 1870s.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d druther stay home today.<\/li>\n<li>We druther go swimming than go to school.<\/li>\n<li>If I&#8217;ve got my druthers, I(&#8216;d) druther not.<\/li>\n<li>If I had my druthers, I would prefer to be a writer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you heard \/ seen druther(s) used before?<\/p>\n<p>Do you use it yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an email I received today, I saw the phrase &#8220;If I really had my druthers&#8221;, which puzzled me. I hadn&#8217;t come across the word druthers before, and had to look it up. According to Wikitionary, druthers [\u02c8dr\u028c\u00f0\u0259z] means &#8220;wishes, preferences, or ways&#8221; and is used informally in the USA. It comes from the the [&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-15279","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\/15279","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=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}