{"id":2208,"date":"2004-08-24T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/08\/24\/2208.html"},"modified":"2004-08-24T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T15:04:31","slug":"more-hp-britishisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/08\/24\/more-hp-britishisms\/","title":{"rendered":"More HP Britishisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple more British words that survived the Americanization of <cite>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix<\/cite>: <span class=\"word-as-word\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?judder\">judder<\/a><\/span> (which I see fairly often in submissions by British authors, and almost never in stories by American authors), <span class=\"word-as-word\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?chunter\">chunter<\/a><\/span> (not to be confused with <span class=\"word-as-word\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-chu1.htm\">chunder<\/a><\/span>, Australian slang for vomit, best known in the US from the song \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afn.org\/~afn30091\/songs\/m\/menat-down.htm\">Land Down Under<\/a>,\" your earworm for today), and <span class=\"word-as-word\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?chuffed\">chuffed<\/a><\/span> (you'll have to click the word in the list of matches).<\/p>\n<p>There's a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/mi3\/cookarama\/britwords.html\">Dictionary of British Words in the Harry Potter Books<\/a> that's not bad, though its entry for <span class=\"word-as-word\">chuffed<\/span> leaves out the main relevant definition.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple more British words that survived the Americanization of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: judder (which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}