{"id":545,"date":"2007-11-23T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T18:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/smiling\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T18:15:17","slug":"smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; u\u015bmiechni\u0119ta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <em>u\u015bmiechni\u0119ta<\/em>, means &#8216;smiling&#8217; in Polish, and appears in the Polish version of Silent Night:<\/p>\n<p>Cicha noc, \u015bwi\u0119ta noc,<br \/>\npok\u00f3j niesie ludziom wszem,<br \/>\nA u \u017c\u0142\u00f3bka Matka \u015bwi\u0119ta<br \/>\nczuwa sama u\u015bmiechni\u0119ta,<br \/>\nNad Dzieci\u0105tka snem.<br \/>\nNad Dzieci\u0105tka snem.<\/p>\n<p>The singing group I go to at the Hammersmith Irish Centre in London will be performing (for charity) at Hammersmith tube station a week next Monday. One of the things we&#8217;ll be singing will be Silent Night and we&#8217;ve decided to try to sing it in Polish and Irish, as well as in English.<\/p>\n<p>We can cope with the Irish version as there are at least five Irish speakers, including myself, in the group, but the Polish version is proving more of a challenge. This week a Polish friend of one of the group members came along to help us with the pronunciation, so we now have a rough idea of what it sounds like. I also found a recording of the Polish version on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KLDPYFWa25s\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll probably just sing the first and last lines of the Polish and the rest in English as we&#8217;re not sufficiently confident to sing the whole of it.<\/p>\n<p>I found translations of Silent Night in many different languages <a href=\"http:\/\/silentnight.web.za\/Translate\/\">here<\/a>, and plan to put some of them on Omniglot in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/index.php\">songs section<\/a>. Do you have any suggestions for other multilingual songs I could include?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, u\u015bmiechni\u0119ta, means &#8216;smiling&#8217; in Polish, and appears in the Polish version of Silent Night: Cicha noc, \u015bwi\u0119ta noc, pok\u00f3j niesie ludziom wszem, A u \u017c\u0142\u00f3bka Matka \u015bwi\u0119ta czuwa sama u\u015bmiechni\u0119ta, Nad Dzieci\u0105tka snem. Nad Dzieci\u0105tka snem. The singing group I go to at the Hammersmith Irish Centre in London will be performing (for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,39,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music","category-polish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}