{"id":31,"date":"2006-04-09T19:07:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/09\/word-of-the-day-spotchal-manx-gaelic\/"},"modified":"2006-04-09T19:07:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T18:07:30","slug":"spotchal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; spot\u00e7hal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/spotchal.mp3\">spot\u00e7hal<\/a> = joking<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of usage<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/vel-oo-spotchal.mp3\">Vel oo spot\u00e7hal?<\/a> = are you joking?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/cha-nel-mee-spotchal-noadyr.mp3\">Cha nel mee spot\u00e7hal noadyr<\/a> = I&#8217;m not joking at all<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/son-spotch-ren-mee-eh.mp3\">Son spot\u00e7h ren mee eh<\/a> = I did it for a joke<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/lhig-eh-shaghey-myr-spotch-eh.mp3\">Lhig eh shaghey myr spot\u00e7h eh<\/a> = He passed it off as a joke<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/spotch-spring.mp3\">spot\u00e7h \/ spring<\/a>, noun = joke<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/spotcheraght-springaght.mp3\">spot\u00e7heraght \/ springaght<\/a>, verb = to joke<\/p>\n<p>This word came up in the Manx lesson I was listening to while making toast this morning, and it really appealed to me.<\/p>\n<p>The equivalent words for joking in the other Celtic languages are:<br \/>\nIrish Gaelic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/magadh.mp3\">magadh<\/a><br \/>\nScottish Gaelic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/fealla-dha.mp3\">fealla-dh\u00e0<\/a><br \/>\nWelsh &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/jocio-welsh.mp3\">jocio, cellwair, ffraetheb, smalio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ta my laa ruggyree ayn jiu, liorish yn raad. Ta mee shey bleeaney jeig as feed.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, it&#8217;s my birthday today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spot\u00e7hal = joking Examples of usage Vel oo spot\u00e7hal? = are you joking? Cha nel mee spot\u00e7hal noadyr = I&#8217;m not joking at all Son spot\u00e7h ren mee eh = I did it for a joke Lhig eh shaghey myr spot\u00e7h eh = He passed it off as a joke Related words spot\u00e7h \/ spring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-manx","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}