{"id":2662,"date":"2009-08-31T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2009-08-31T18:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T02:33:46","slug":"pop-quiz-10-word-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/language\/pop-quiz-10-word-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop quiz: 10 word sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that the longer you look at any word the stranger it begins to seem? The other day a squirrel ran in front of my car, and I thought &#8220;<em>Squirrel<\/em> is an odd English word &#8212; I wonder if it comes from the French.&#8221; That guess (a guess, because I couldn&#8217;t remember the French <em>\u00e9cureuil<\/em>) turned out to be right (ultimately the word has a Greek origin, <em>skiouros<\/em>), but that was just luck. I wondered how people would do at identifying the origins of some of the odder words in English, and so I created this quiz. Select the best answer for the origin of each of the 10 words.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->[QUIZZIN 1]<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that the longer you look at any word the stranger it begins to seem? The other day a squirrel ran in front of my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[34,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}