{"id":472,"date":"2007-08-23T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/oology\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T18:02:06","slug":"oology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; oology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <strong>oology<\/strong>, refers to the study of eggs, especially bird&#8217;s eggs. It also covers the collecting of bird&#8217;s eggs and the study of their breeding habits, and their nests, a practice sometimes known as caliology.<\/p>\n<p>Oology is sometimes written o\u00f6logy, comes from the Greek \u014dion, egg, plus <em>ology<\/em>, a back formation from words like biology.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this word in Jasper Fforde&#8217;s wonderfully silly book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0340835672\/omniglot-20\"><em>The Big Over Easy<\/em><\/a>, which centres around the mysterious death of Humpty Dumpty &#8211; did he fall or was he pushed?. Oologists are consulted during the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, oology, refers to the study of eggs, especially bird&#8217;s eggs. It also covers the collecting of bird&#8217;s eggs and the study of their breeding habits, and their nests, a practice sometimes known as caliology. Oology is sometimes written o\u00f6logy, comes from the Greek \u014dion, egg, plus ology, a back formation from words like [&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-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}