{"id":771,"date":"2008-11-27T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T21:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/27\/morglawdd\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T21:59:06","slug":"morglawdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; morglawdd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Welsh <em>morglawdd<\/em> is the word for a tidal barrage (lit. &#8220;sea bank, dyke, earthwork or hedgerow&#8221;). I heard this word during a discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radiocymru\/\">Radio Cymru<\/a> of plans to build such a barrage across the Severn Estuary and I just liked the sound of it.<\/p>\n<p>The plans are opposed by many environmental groups who prefer an alternative proposal to build an artificial reef or <em>greigres artiffisial<\/em>, which would cost less, produce more power, and would have less environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>There are more details of the project on the BBC website in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/wales\/south_east\/7748431.stm\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/welsh\/hi\/newsid_7740000\/newsid_7749900\/7749949.stm\">Welsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Welsh morglawdd is the word for a tidal barrage (lit. &#8220;sea bank, dyke, earthwork or hedgerow&#8221;). I heard this word during a discussion on Radio Cymru of plans to build such a barrage across the Severn Estuary and I just liked the sound of it. The plans are opposed by many environmental groups who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}