{"id":18394,"date":"2019-10-11T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18394"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:14:26","slug":"do-you-tartle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18394","title":{"rendered":"Do you tartle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting word I heard the other day is tartle<\/strong>. It’s a Scots word that means “To hesitate, to be uncertain as in recognising a person or object; to boggle, \u201cas a horse does\u201d; to hesitate about clinching a bargain.” or “To recognise, esp. after some uncertainty, to discern”.<\/p>\n

An example of how it is used is: “I tartled at him, I could not with certainty recognise him.”<\/p>\n

The related adjective, tartlesome<\/strong>, means “disposed to start objections, captious*”.<\/p>\n

*Captious [\u02c8k\u00e6p\u0283\u0259s] = “apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.” [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Source: Dictionary of the Scots Language \/ Dictionar o the Scots Leid<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I heard tartle on the Something Rhymes with Purple podcast<\/a>, where it’s defined as “to hesitate when introducing someone because you’ve forgetten their name”.<\/p>\n

To avoid tartling, I just don’t use people’s names, except when necessary. Although I find that if I repeat someone’s name several times after being introduced to them, I’m more likely to remember it.<\/p>\n

Do you have any good ways to remember name, and to avoid tartling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting word I heard the other day is tartle. It’s a Scots word that means “To hesitate, to be uncertain as in recognising a person or object; to boggle, \u201cas a horse does\u201d; to hesitate about clinching a bargain.” or “To recognise, esp. after some uncertainty, to discern”. An example of how it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394","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=18394"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18405,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions\/18405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}