{"id":17106,"date":"2018-11-21T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17106"},"modified":"2018-11-21T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T12:05:39","slug":"counting-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17106","title":{"rendered":"Counting seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/mississippi.gif\" width=\"186\" height=\"165\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"1 Mississippi 2 Mississippi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you need or want to count in seconds, do you put a words between the numbers? For example 1 [word], 2 [word], 3 [word] etc.<\/p>\n<p>I usually use <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> as the in-between word, but have tried others, such as <strong>elephant<\/strong> and <strong>hippopotamus<\/strong>. Elephant doesn&#8217;t really work as it doesn&#8217;t have enough syllables, but hippopotamus works well.<\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing television programmes involving parachuting in which people count 1 thousand, 2 thousand, and so on before opening their parachute.<\/p>\n<p>Another alternative is <strong>Piccadilly<\/strong>, according to this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YBbBbY4qvv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are various places named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piccadilly_(disambiguation)\">Piccadilly<\/a> in England, including a street in central London, an area of Manchester, and a hamlet in Warwickshire, and also places in Australia and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>What in-between word do you use (if any) in English or other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need or want to count in seconds, do you put a words between the numbers? For example 1 [word], 2 [word], 3 [word] etc. I usually use Mississippi as the in-between word, but have tried others, such as elephant and hippopotamus. Elephant doesn&#8217;t really work as it doesn&#8217;t have enough syllables, but hippopotamus [&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-17106","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\/17106","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=17106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}