{"id":14071,"date":"2012-09-05T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2012\/09\/05\/craic.html"},"modified":"2012-09-05T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T17:22:30","slug":"craic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2012\/09\/05\/craic\/","title":{"rendered":"craic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In May, I saw the following line in an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/digital-life\/item\/27144-google-and-facebook-engage\/\">bicycling, socializing, and social networks<\/a> in Dublin:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;We just want to show how cycling is a social thing to do and that you don't need to be online to have the craic,&rdquo; said Elst.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craic\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Craic,&rdquo; [.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.] or &ldquo;crack,&rdquo; is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. It is often used with the definite article&mdash;&ldquo;the craic.&ldquo; The word has an unusual history; the English <i>crack<\/i> was borrowed into Irish as <i>craic<\/i> in the mid-20th century and the Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears to be pronounced just like &ldquo;crack.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Wikipedia article is worth reading too; it gives the history of the word, and touches on the controversy over the spelling <i>craic<\/i>, which has been criticized as &ldquo;fake Irish&rdquo; and &ldquo;pseudo-Gaelic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, I saw the following line in an article about bicycling, socializing, and social networks in Dublin: &ldquo;We just want to show how cycling is a social thing to&#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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}