{"id":3489,"date":"2010-08-31T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2010-08-31T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:04:43","slug":"snigs-and-snegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Snigs and Snegs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <strong>snig<\/strong> came up in conversation with a friend who came to fix some of my doors last week. They weren&#8217;t closing properly and he sawed and planed bits of them. We found that the catch doesn&#8217;t work in one of them, but the lock, a small metal slidding one, does. My friend told me that such locks are called snigs, a word I hadn&#8217;t heard before and which I can&#8217;t find in any of the dictionaries I&#8217;ve checked. Maybe it&#8217;s a dialect word.<\/p>\n<p>A similar word that is perhaps related is <strong>sneg<\/strong>, which is what the window fitters called the metal protrusions that slide out to lock the windows in place.<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you heard of either of these words? <\/p>\n<p>Do you have other words for these kinds of locks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word snig came up in conversation with a friend who came to fix some of my doors last week. They weren&#8217;t closing properly and he sawed and planed bits of them. We found that the catch doesn&#8217;t work in one of them, but the lock, a small metal slidding one, does. My friend told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}