{"id":3494,"date":"2010-09-01T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2010-09-01T16:39:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:39:32","slug":"snickets-and-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Snickets and robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <strong>snicket<\/strong> [&#8216;sn\u026ak\u026at], is a narrow passage between buildings, walls or fences in some parts of northern England. It&#8217;s origins are shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few other words for such passages, including: gennel\/ginnel\/jennel [&#8216;d\u0292\u025bn\u0259l, &#8216;d\u0292\u026an\u0259l, &#8216;g\u026an\u0259l], vennel, bunnyrun, close, wynd, jitty, alley, alleyway, passage, passageway, entry, lane, laneway, twitten and twitchel.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any others?<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/archives\/000916.php\">languagehat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00lv1k1\">Fry&#8217;s English Delight<\/a> while writing this and just discovered that traffic lights are called <strong>robot<\/strong> in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, snicket [&#8216;sn\u026ak\u026at], is a narrow passage between buildings, walls or fences in some parts of northern England. It&#8217;s origins are shrouded in mystery. There are quite a few other words for such passages, including: gennel\/ginnel\/jennel [&#8216;d\u0292\u025bn\u0259l, &#8216;d\u0292\u026an\u0259l, &#8216;g\u026an\u0259l], vennel, bunnyrun, close, wynd, jitty, alley, alleyway, passage, passageway, entry, lane, laneway, twitten and twitchel. [&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-3494","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\/3494","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=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}