{"id":17793,"date":"2019-05-07T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17793"},"modified":"2019-05-07T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:48:48","slug":"blesk-a-hrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17793","title":{"rendered":"Blesk a hrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stepanrysavy\/34721866171\/in\/photolist-hnsFZ-4nSyq6-94wZyp-avtBXN-VTKdUw-2MKGDz-UUfD82-94Abjs-94x5Yp-21y1vjb-Aohy9-5i4eYU-5mPesC-5mJWxB-6FjdP4-6wUi76-5dpBxn-cVDEa7-7ccL4D-aUApoF-aUApfa-6mwyvS-a6639t-aUAoWX-aUAp6H-22gWDmZ-ekXWto-aUApuX-ekY7S1-ekSbSv-ekSaBv-pri1JJ-ekSvEr-pri3V7-pbQo3C-22gWCXn-v3Hn79-pt3Pn6\" title=\"Lightning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4179\/34721866171_e42e023dbb_m.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Lightning\" width=\"240\" height=\"217\"\/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two interesting words that came up in my Czech lessons recently are <strong>blesk<\/strong> (lightning) and <strong>hrom<\/strong> (thunder).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blesk<\/strong> also means a flash, thunderbolt or flashlight \/ torch, and sounds like a flash of lightning to me. <strong>Hrom<\/strong> could be to a clap of thunder.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which of them usually comes first &#8211; is it <strong>blesk a hrom<\/strong> or <strong>hrom a blesk<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>In English it&#8217;s always thunder and lightning, even though the lightning comes first. Lightning and thunder just sounds wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In Welsh it&#8217;s <strong>mellt a tharanau<\/strong> (lightning and thunder).<\/p>\n<p>Is thunder and lightning or lightning and thunder in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting words that came up in my Czech lessons recently are blesk (lightning) and hrom (thunder). Blesk also means a flash, thunderbolt or flashlight \/ torch, and sounds like a flash of lightning to me. Hrom could be to a clap of thunder. I&#8217;m not sure which of them usually comes first &#8211; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793","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=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}