{"id":356,"date":"2002-03-19T14:40:41","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T22:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/03\/19\/356.html"},"modified":"2002-03-19T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T22:40:41","slug":"tall-dark-and-rugose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/03\/19\/tall-dark-and-rugose\/","title":{"rendered":"Tall, dark, and rugose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was idly wondering whence <i>truffle<\/i> derives, and why the candy is named the same as the mushroom, so I looked it up.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the word is cognate with <i>tuber,<\/i> which in Latin means <i>swelling.<\/i>  I'm reminded of Arthur's old innuendoes about \"starchy tubers.\"<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the definition doesn't explain why the two things have the same name; I'm assuming that the candy was considered to look vaguely like a truffle.  But I love the first definition: \"the usually dark and rugose edible subterranean fruiting body of several European ascomycetous fungi.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\"<\/p>\n<p>Partly I just like the phrase \"edible subterranean fruiting body.\"  But mostly I'm tickled by the phrase \"dark and rugose.\"  <i>Rugose<\/i> sounds like a cross between rugged and morose; it sounds like a word you'd apply to Aragorn.<\/p>\n<p>But no, sadly, it turns out to mean <i>wrinkled.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I've been saving word-related tidbits, rather than posting them here, in expectation that sooner or later I'll get around to writing those last five missing \"Words &amp; Stuff\" columns.  But I've got more than enough material for those (it's time to write 'em that's in short supply), so what the hell.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was idly wondering whence truffle derives, and why the candy is named the same as the mushroom, so I&#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-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}