{"id":3590,"date":"2006-06-28T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/06\/28\/rutter.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T16:22:52","slug":"rutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/06\/28\/rutter\/","title":{"rendered":"rutter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to James Clavell's <cite>Shogun<\/cite>, \"[a] rutter was a small black book [used for ocean navigation] containing the detailed observation of a pilot who had been there before.\"<\/p>\n<p>Such a book was also known as a \"portolano,\" which MW3 says is \"from Medieval Latin 'portulanus,' harbor official.\"  In Dutch, it's apparently known as a \"scheepsjournaal.\"  I love Dutch words; they make me grin.  Scheepsjournaal!  That's clearly an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anapsid.org\/beastly2.html\">ovine<\/a> diary.  And now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Athens\/Styx\/5223\/Songs\/supersheep.html\">Supersheep Overture<\/a> is stuck in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Found \"rutter\" and the Clavell quote (though not the sheep stuff) in Charlie Finlay's article <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~ccfinlay\/Infodump.html\">The Artful Infodump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a \"rutter\" can also be (in addition to \"something that ruts\") a horseman or trooper, from Dutch \"ruiter,\" or \"rider.\"  There's that Dutch again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to James Clavell&#8217;s Shogun, &#8220;[a] rutter was a small black book [used for ocean navigation] containing the detailed observation of a pilot who had been there before.&#8221; Such a&#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-3590","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\/3590","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=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}