{"id":22699,"date":"2023-02-03T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22699"},"modified":"2023-02-03T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:22:57","slug":"gossipy-cancans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22699","title":{"rendered":"Gossipy Cancans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>cancan<\/strong> is a \u201chigh-kicking chorus line dance originating in France\u201d, and also a \u201ca trick [in motocross] where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cancan#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cedricchoel\/16643190615\/in\/photolist-rmGGJk-6Sh3bb-3iwuSZ-4y5JqG-6kezYK-5EK5zg-4NDQcg-bsmTA9-2LaoP-dfRxKa-5as45X-F6eoC-2ocm79i-bLyhnt-4en9PF-4GqLkX-dumWsk-2n2pJUs-9adavj-6EhsCN-U7V3N-2o9282T-9yVGe7-7RZ9nb-2mUpVvT-5DxZt9-QWa8HM-2mUwFbJ-2mUyxUm-2mUuJ7e-bmi6E9-9JYHcD-2mUyygJ-2mUvnPq-4YSdGp-2mUyy25-2mUwEDm-wc8b1-8jCVJj-QWa7U2-QWa8b4-4BPTkf-cBhXPE-2mUuJkA-2mUpVFs-zgmT2g-oDomd-wc85Z-2mUvnsZ-nRiqk\" title=\"cancan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8561\/16643190615_737a182e31_z.jpg\" alt=\"cancan\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Accorrding to the English version of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cancan#French\">Wiktionary<\/a>, it comes from the French <strong>cancan<\/strong> [k\u0251\u0303.k\u0251\u0303], which refers to the dance, and also means gossip.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there was a disbute at the Coll\u00e8ge de France in around 1550 about the pronunciation of the Latin word <em>quamquam<\/em> &#8211; some scholars favoured the reconstructed Latin prononuciation of [\u02c8k\u02b7am.k\u02b7\u00e3(m)], while others preferred the French Latin pronunciation of [k\u0251\u0303.k\u0251\u0303]. Since then, <strong>cancan<\/strong> has referred to \u201cany kind of scandalous performance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Accorrding to the French version of <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cancan&quot;\">Wiktionary<\/a> however, <strong>cancan<\/strong> (gossip) originally meant a loud noise about something, and comes from <strong>quanquan<\/strong> (noise, brilliance for a trifle, a narrative full of slander, an indiscreet report), from the Latin <em>quamquam<\/em> (although, while), from <em>quam<\/em> (in what way, how, as much as).<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, <strong>cancan<\/strong> might come from the Arabic <strong>\u0643\u0627\u0646\u0643\u0627\u0646<\/strong> (kan kan), which means futile talk.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>cancan<\/strong>, as in the dance, comes from a children\u2019s name for <strong>canard<\/strong> (duck), and is onomatopoeic inspired by the quacking of ducks and evocative of their waddling.<\/p>\n<p>Related words in French include <strong>cancaner<\/strong> (to gossip (maliciously), to quack), <strong>cancaneuse<\/strong> (a gossip), and <strong>cancanier<\/strong> (gossiping, gossip, gossipy).<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the word <strong>gossip<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>godsybbe\/godsib<\/em> (a close friend or relation, a confidant, a godparent), from the Old English <em>godsibb<\/em> (godparent, sponsor), from <em>god<\/em> (god) and <em>sibb<\/em> (relationship, peace) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gossip#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cancan is a \u201chigh-kicking chorus line dance originating in France\u201d, and also a \u201ca trick [in motocross] where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.\u201d [source]. Accorrding to the English version of Wiktionary, it comes from the French cancan [k\u0251\u0303.k\u0251\u0303], which refers to the dance, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,104,107,10,15,26,33,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22699","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=22699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22703,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22699\/revisions\/22703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}