{"id":18193,"date":"2020-03-24T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18193"},"modified":"2020-03-24T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T03:47:59","slug":"cutty-sark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/03\/24\/cutty-sark\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutty-sark"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve long known about the whisky called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cutty_Sark_(whisky)\">Cutty Sark<\/a>, and I vaguely knew that it was named after a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cutty_Sark\">ship<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I didn\u2019t know until today that the ship was named after a fictional character\u2019s nickname:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns\u2019s 1791 poem <cite>Tam o\u2019 Shanter<\/cite>. [\u2026] In the poem she wore a linen <i>sark<\/i> (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was <i>cutty<\/i>, or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing in such a short undergarment caused Tam to cry out \u201cWeel done, Cutty-sark\u201d, which subsequently became a well known catchphrase.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193","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=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18195,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions\/18195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}