{"id":20377,"date":"2020-12-25T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20377"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T16:56:07","slug":"chrimbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20377","title":{"rendered":"Chrimbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/christmas2015.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Language quiz image\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/christmas.htm\">multilingual Merry Christmas<\/a> to all of you who celebrate it.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you prefer, Happy Holidays, Jolly Yuletide, Seasons Greetings, Happy Friday, \u884c\u61b2\u7d00\u5ff5\u65e5\u5feb\u6a02! (Happy Constitution Day &#8211; for readers in Taiwan).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a version of &#8216;We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8217; I wrote yesterday. I was inspired by a friend who re-wrote of &#8216;We Three Kings&#8217;. It references other songs written by me and my friends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/954041899&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\" title=\"Simon Ager\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Ager<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/jollyyuletide\" title=\"Jolly Yuletide\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Jolly Yuletide<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8216;We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8217; is a traditional English carol from the south west of England that has been around is various guises at least since the 19th century. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Wish_You_a_Merry_Christmas\">More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few other Christmasy songs I found recently on YouTube that I thought I&#8217;d share with you:<\/p>\n<p>The Carol of the Bells has been popping up in my feed quite a bit. It is based on the Ukrainian song \u0429\u0435\u0434\u0440\u0438\u043a (Shchedryk):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GqeJ38DThVc\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rather different version:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQDy8yuhcao\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is not exactly a Christmas song, but does have a Christmasy theme, and is a lot of fun to watch and listen to. It is by Nanowar of Steel, an Italian band, and was inspired by the IKEA catalogue. How many languages can you spot in it?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S9WWz95ripA\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple of other Christmasy songs that I quite like:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/89o_2p8ppB4\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5BG9y_hDDs\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multilingual Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it. Or if you prefer, Happy Holidays, Jolly Yuletide, Seasons Greetings, Happy Friday, \u884c\u61b2\u7d00\u5ff5\u65e5\u5feb\u6a02! (Happy Constitution Day &#8211; for readers in Taiwan). Here&#8217;s a version of &#8216;We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8217; I wrote yesterday. I was inspired by a friend who re-wrote of &#8216;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,29,62,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-songs","category-ukrainian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377","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=20377"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20387,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions\/20387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}