{"id":1358,"date":"2013-10-24T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T21:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2013-10-26T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:45:56","slug":"how-british-am-i-numfudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"How British Am I?: Numfudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preparing my <a href=\"http:\/\/igniteportland.org\/\">IgnitePortland12<\/a>\u00a0talk, and I was looking for an earlier citation for <em>choke-sparrow<\/em>, which is a kind of wheat that presumably chokes sparrows. \u00a0I found an entry in a Google Book called &#8220;The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Volumes 29-30&#8221; from 1897, which is great for me. The magazine appears to include an adorably regional dictionary of Wiltshire from that time. Check out the entries surrounding choke-sparrow:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/choke-sparrow1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1361\" alt=\"choke-sparrow\" src=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/choke-sparrow1.png\" width=\"439\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/choke-sparrow1.png 549w, https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/choke-sparrow1-300x95.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It goes from the vulgar to the festive in four entries, I love it.\u00a0But I also found this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1359\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-24 at 2.19.46 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-24-at-2.19.46-PM.png\" width=\"448\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-24-at-2.19.46-PM.png 560w, https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-24-at-2.19.46-PM-300x31.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>I&#8217;m not sure I have anything intelligent to say about numfudge, but it certainly brightened my day to learn of its existence. I hope it&#8217;s done the same for you.\u00a0Let&#8217;s all go on holiday to Trowbridge and complain about its excessive numfudgery, what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preparing my IgnitePortland12\u00a0talk, and I was looking for an earlier citation for choke-sparrow, which is a kind of wheat that presumably chokes sparrows. \u00a0I found an entry in a Google Book called &#8220;The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Volumes 29-30&#8221; from 1897, which is great for me. The magazine appears to include an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,571,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-576","category-compounds","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}