{"id":426,"date":"2007-06-27T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/lol\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T17:04:24","slug":"lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; lol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word <em>lol<\/em> means nonsense, and according to the dictionary on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/wales\/learnwelsh\/welsh_dictionary.pl?gair=lol&#038;i=c\">BBC Learn Welsh site<\/a>, it also means foolery, bosh, bunkum, gammon, moonshine, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, tomfoolery or\u00a0twaddle. Every time I see it, it reminds me of the abbreviation lol for &#8216;laugh(ing) out loud&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of usage:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dyn ni&#8217;n siarad llawer o lol yn y dosbarth weithiau.<\/em><br \/>\nWe talk a lot of nonsense in class sometimes. (quite true!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Mae&#8217;r newyddiadurwr yn ddymunol iawn ond mae e&#8217;n ysgrifennu lol weithiau.<br \/>\n<\/em>The journalist\/reporter is very pleasant, but he writes nonsense sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Words with a similar meaning to <em>lol<\/em> include <em>ffiloreg<\/em>, <em>ffwlbri<\/em> and\u00a0<em>dwli<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What words do you use to say that something is nonsense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word lol means nonsense, and according to the dictionary on the BBC Learn Welsh site, it also means foolery, bosh, bunkum, gammon, moonshine, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, tomfoolery or\u00a0twaddle. Every time I see it, it reminds me of the abbreviation lol for &#8216;laugh(ing) out loud&#8217;. Here are some examples of usage: Dyn ni&#8217;n siarad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}