{"id":16369,"date":"2006-01-14T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/01\/14\/dumdum.html"},"modified":"2006-01-14T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T20:03:39","slug":"dumdum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/01\/14\/dumdum\/","title":{"rendered":"dum-dum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've known the term \"dum-dum,\" referring to a particular kind of ammunition, for years, but it was only just now that I found out where the word comes from: the Wikipedia entry for <a title=\"Dum-dum: Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dum-dum\">dum-dum<\/a> says it originally referred to ammunition \"produced in the early 1890s at the Dum-dum arsenal near Calcutta in British India.\"<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia isn't always accurate, but I'm inclined to believe that, because it corroborates my guess about the etymology; what led me to that guess was a reference to \"a factory in Dum-Dum\" that made bullets, in Zadie Smith's novel <cite>White Teeth<\/cite>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known the term &#8220;dum-dum,&#8221; referring to a particular kind of ammunition, for years, but it was only just now that I found out where the word comes from: the&#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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369","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=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}