{"id":18818,"date":"2026-07-19T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18818"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:57:21","slug":"pundigrion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/07\/19\/pundigrion\/","title":{"rendered":"pundigrion"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>According to the <cite>Shorter Oxford Dictionary<\/cite>, <i>pundigrion<\/i> is another word for <i>pun<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>That dictionary gives the origin of the term as \u201cPerh. fanciful alt. of punctilio.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>The <cite>OED<\/cite> tells me that \u201cThis word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1820s.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>One might wonder whether this word is the origin of <i>pun<\/i>. Turns out that it might be, but we don\u2019t know! The <cite>Shorter Oxford Dictionary<\/cite> says, of <i>pun<\/i>: \u201cOrigin uncertain: perh. short for pundigrion.\u201d But <cite>MW<\/cite> says (of <i>pun<\/i>): \u201cperhaps from Italian <i>puntiglio<\/i> fine point, quibble.\u201d<\/p>\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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18818","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\/18818","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=18818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18823,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18818\/revisions\/18823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}