{"id":186419,"date":"2014-01-25T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/25\/you-learn-something-new-every-day\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T03:14:00","slug":"you-learn-something-new-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/25\/you-learn-something-new-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"You Learn Something New Every Day\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was using Google to confirm the spelling of the word “Bated”, as in, “Bated breath,” the other day, and I came across its origins.<\/p>\n

It turns out that it’s a diminutive form of the word “abated”, and the first recorded use was by William Shakespeare<\/a>, specifically, Merchant of Venice<\/i>, “Shall I bend low and in a bondman’s key, With bated breath<\/b> and whispering humbleness, Say this; ‘Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last; You spurn’d me such a day; another time You call’d me dog; and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys’?”<\/p>\n

I already knew that the first recorded use of puke, actually the word puking, came from The Scottish Play.<\/p>\n

I just think that it’s kinda cool.<\/p>\n

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I was using Google to confirm the spelling of the word “Bated”, as in, “Bated breath,” the other day, and I came across its origins. It turns out that it’s a diminutive form of the word “abated”, and the first recorded use was by William Shakespeare, specifically, Merchant of Venice, “Shall I bend low and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1130,995],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-language","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}