{"id":165,"date":"2004-03-05T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T19:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-04-12T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:11:36","slug":"catching-up-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/05\/catching-up-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was back in Scotland, I met up with many of my old colleagues from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collinsdictionaries.com\/\">Collins Dictionaries<\/a>. We had a very pleasant evening with Ian Brookes, who is now the editor-in-chief of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chambersharrap.co.uk\/chambers\/\">Chambers<\/a> dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers is an unusual dictionary, in that it has a sprinkling of amusing definitions. One of these is <strong>mullet<\/strong>, defined as <q>a hairstyle that is short at the front, long at the back, and ridiculous all round<\/q>. There are also rare definitions, such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>paneity<\/strong> <em>n<\/em> the state of being bread&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After reading that, I knew I had to buy the latest edition. Does this make me a word nerd?<\/p>\n<p>Chambers publish a booklet on their dictionary, which is available online: <a href=\"http:\/\/replay.waybackmachine.org\/20051124190505\/http:\/\/www.chambersharrap.co.uk\/chambers\/ebooks\/wit_wisdom.pdf\">Words, Wit and Wisdom<\/a> (or local copy, since it&#8217;s fallen off their site: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/03\/wit_wisdom.pdf\">wit_wisdom<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was back in Scotland, I met up with many of my old colleagues from Collins Dictionaries. We had a very pleasant evening with Ian Brookes, who is now the editor-in-chief of the Chambers dictionary. Chambers is an unusual dictionary, in that it has a sprinkling of amusing definitions. One of these is mullet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1010,1199],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-dictionary","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6233,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/6233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}