{"id":4161,"date":"2010-12-30T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2010-12-30T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:29:27","slug":"on-the-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"On the grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat unusual turn of phrase I heard today on BBC Radio 4 was &#8220;<strong>on the grow<\/strong>&#8220;. The programme was called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00wr9pk\/Where_England_Meets_Wales_Episode_1\/\"><em>Where England Meets Wales<\/em><\/a>, and they were taking about the increase in the number of speakers of Welsh in north east Wales. The context was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure why, if compared to Scots Gaelic or Cornish, it&#8217;s thrived, but I think it&#8217;s something that really symbolises the Welsh nation, and as a nation we&#8217;re incredibly passionate about having the language and keeping alive. What&#8217;s really encouraging is that there&#8217;s a high number of Welsh learners in every county, so it is <strong>on the grow<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s growing very quickly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you heard this construction before?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat unusual turn of phrase I heard today on BBC Radio 4 was &#8220;on the grow&#8220;. The programme was called Where England Meets Wales, and they were taking about the increase in the number of speakers of Welsh in north east Wales. The context was: I&#8217;m not entirely sure why, if compared to Scots [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","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=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}