{"id":8899,"date":"2013-07-14T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2013-07-14T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T09:39:25","slug":"language-quiz-265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8899","title":{"rendered":"Language quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz140713.mp3\">recording of a verse from a song<\/a> I&#8217;m currently writing. It contains a mixture of genuine words from Shetland dialect and words I made-up, plus a few that are based on Shetland words. <\/p>\n<p><audio controls height=\"50\" width=\"100\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz140713.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><embed height=\"50\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz140713.mp3\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Here are the words:<\/p>\n<p>When the plookplooks are a plinkin upon their peerie goos<br \/>\nAnd the baagies are a birlin in their muckle shoes<br \/>\nBeware the mirdin owld masgooms and the oolin mooratoogs<br \/>\nFor they will snorf your scobbins, and then slunk doon in the snoob.<\/p>\n<p>Can you work out which of the words are made-up and which are genuine, and what do you think they might mean?<\/p>\n<p>I tried to sing in a Scottish accent, though I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s from any particular part of Scotland. If I could sing in a Shetland accent I would. By using a mixture of Shetland words and made-up ones I&#8217;m not implying that the Shetland ones are in any way equivalent to the made-up ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a recording of a verse from a song I&#8217;m currently writing. It contains a mixture of genuine words from Shetland dialect and words I made-up, plus a few that are based on Shetland words. Here are the words: When the plookplooks are a plinkin upon their peerie goos And the baagies are a birlin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","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=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}