{"id":15428,"date":"2018-04-19T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15428"},"modified":"2018-04-19T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:42:01","slug":"library-mice-and-reading-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15428","title":{"rendered":"Library mice and reading rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/bookworm.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"169\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Illustration of a bookworm\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I discovered today that in Romanian a bookworm (a keen reader) is <em>un \u015foarece de bibliotec\u0103<\/em> (a library mouse), which I rather like, being a bit of a bookworm \/ library mouse myself.<\/p>\n<p>In French there is a simliar term for a bookworm &#8211; <em>rat de biblioth\u00e8que<\/em> (library rat), and in German voracious reader or bookworm is known as a <em>Leseratte<\/em> (reading rat), and in Spanish the equivalent is <em>rat\u00f3n de biblioteca<\/em> (library mouse).<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting words for bookworm in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered today that in Romanian a bookworm (a keen reader) is un \u015foarece de bibliotec\u0103 (a library mouse), which I rather like, being a bit of a bookworm \/ library mouse myself. In French there is a simliar term for a bookworm &#8211; rat de biblioth\u00e8que (library rat), and in German voracious reader or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,116,10,51,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-romanian","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428","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=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}