{"id":7290,"date":"2012-07-10T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2012-07-10T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:11:02","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One word for cupboard used mainly in Hiberno and Scottish English is <strong>press<\/strong>. When I encountered it in one of my Irish courses as a translation of the Irish word <em>prios<\/em> it puzzled me somewhat as I&#8217;d never come across this word used to mean cupboard before. Today I spotted the term linen press in a book I&#8217;m reading and thought I&#8217;d find out more about this word.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/oed.com\/view\/Entry\/150765?rskey=vLM2kw&#038;result=1&#038;isAdvanced=false#eid\">OED<\/a>,  a press is a large cupboard, usually with shelves, especially one that lives in a wall recess, and is used to store such things as linen, clothes, books, crockery and other kitchen item. It is sometimes referred to as a clothes-press or linen-press. It comes from the French word <em>presse<\/em>, which originally referred to a crowd or crush in battle, and by the 14th century also meant a clothes cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>Do you call cupboards presses, or have you heard anybody doing so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One word for cupboard used mainly in Hiberno and Scottish English is press. When I encountered it in one of my Irish courses as a translation of the Irish word prios it puzzled me somewhat as I&#8217;d never come across this word used to mean cupboard before. Today I spotted the term linen press in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","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=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}