{"id":16355,"date":"2006-02-03T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/02\/03\/compere.html"},"modified":"2006-02-03T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T05:12:59","slug":"compere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/02\/03\/compere\/","title":{"rendered":"compere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Turns out a \"compere\" is a master of ceremonies (MW11 sez \"chiefly British\").  And to compere is to emcee.<\/p>\n<p>I had seen \"compeer\" before (mostly in <cite>Pogo<\/cite>, I think), for \"companion\" or \"comrade,\" and if I had previously encountered the noun \"compere\" I think I assumed it meant the same thing. I'm pretty sure I hadn't previously seen the verb \"compere.\"<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be posting a lot of British terms here. Which is funny, 'cause I thought I was pretty up on British slang and usage, based on a lifetime of reading British books and watching British TV and being generally an Anglophile.  But it turns out they've got all these terms nobody ever told me about. Hmph.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out a &#8220;compere&#8221; is a master of ceremonies (MW11 sez &#8220;chiefly British&#8221;). And to compere is to emcee. I had seen &#8220;compeer&#8221; before (mostly in Pogo, I think), for&#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-16355","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\/16355","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=16355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}