{"id":7563,"date":"2012-09-12T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2012-09-12T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:57:16","slug":"deps-and-depping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7563","title":{"rendered":"Deps and Depping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in London this weekend I heard the word <strong>dep<\/strong> being used by a singer who was standing in for another in a singing group. I hadn&#8217;t come across this word before and assumed it was an abbreviation of deputy. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shwoodwind.co.uk\/Notes\/The_dep.htm\">this article<\/a>, that&#8217;s exactly what it is &#8211; &#8220;in the music biz it means a stand-in, a musician who takes the place of a regular band member &#8211; usually when they&#8217;ve fallen ill &#8230; or more likely got a better paid gig on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have you come across this usage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in London this weekend I heard the word dep being used by a singer who was standing in for another in a singing group. I hadn&#8217;t come across this word before and assumed it was an abbreviation of deputy. According to this article, that&#8217;s exactly what it is &#8211; &#8220;in the music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7563","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\/7563","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=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}