{"id":447,"date":"2007-07-18T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T19:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/knotholes\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T19:34:32","slug":"knotholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; knothole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term <em>knothole<\/em> is used to refer to a block of stacked characters in a text that occurs when you have the same words or phrases repeated several times and the text is laid out in such a way that the words or phrases line up.<\/p>\n<p>This is apparently quite a frequent occurrence in encyclopedias, which tend to have a house style for entries, which leads to quite a lot of repetition, and also in publications that use fairly narrow columns, such as newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"76\" alt=\"an example of a knothole\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/knothole.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those concerned with page layout are trained to avoid such undesirable alignments of text.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/david-crystal.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/on-undesirable-alignments.html\">David Crystal&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term knothole is used to refer to a block of stacked characters in a text that occurs when you have the same words or phrases repeated several times and the text is laid out in such a way that the words or phrases line up. This is apparently quite a frequent occurrence in encyclopedias, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}