{"id":1888,"date":"2017-08-10T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/10\/a-gurt-plan-national-poetry-day-to-celebrate-englands-local-words\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:45:40","slug":"a-gurt-plan-national-poetry-day-to-celebrate-englands-local-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"A &#039;gurt&#039; plan: National Poetry Day to celebrate England&#039;s local words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Bristol word for great, via Merseyside\u2019s \u2018geg in\u2019 and London\u2019s \u2018fam\u2019, 12 authors are writing poems celebrating language tied to English regions From the Berkshire term for a woodlouse, \u201ccheeselog\u201d, to a Suffolk phrase for lopsided, \u201con the huh\u201d, England\u2019s poets are set to do their bit for preserving regional dialects, with a series of poems celebrating local words.The initiative to \u201cshine a light into a lexicon that\u2019s too often overlooked\u201d, as the lexicographer Susie Dent described it, stems from the #freetheword project, a partnership between BBC English Regions, National Poetry Day and the Oxford English Dictionary to find unrecorded words used in everyday speech all around the UK. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/aug\/10\/a-gurt-plan-national-poetry-day-to-celebrate-englands-local-words\" target=\"_blank\">A &#039;gurt&#039; plan: National Poetry Day to celebrate England&#039;s local words<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Bristol word for great, via Merseyside\u2019s \u2018geg in\u2019 and London\u2019s \u2018fam\u2019, 12 authors are writing poems celebrating language tied to English regions From the Berkshire term for a woodlouse, \u201ccheeselog\u201d, to a Suffolk phrase for lopsided, \u201con the huh\u201d, England\u2019s poets are set to do their bit for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}