{"id":65080,"date":"2024-06-20T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/fidlets-fingies-and-riding-a-doo-antarctica-english-slang-terms"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T04:50:22","slug":"fidlets-fingies-and-riding-a-doo-study-sheds-light-on-antarctic-english-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65080","title":{"rendered":"Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Steph Kaefer spent three weeks documenting unique colloquialisms on the frozen continent after newcomers were struck by the distinctive vocabulary<\/p>\n<p>If you know what it means to be a \u201cfidlet\u201d going for a \u201cjolly\u201d in your \u201cdoo\u201d, then you are part of an exclusive club that speaks colloquial Antarctic English.<\/p>\n<p> A New Zealand linguists doctorate graduate from the University of Canterbury has completed a world-first study into colloquial Antarctic English, spoken at the US, British and New Zealand Antarctic research stations.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been previous literary studies into Antartica English vocabulary, Dr Steph Kaefer\u2019s study marks the first time a researcher has visited Antarctica to document the unique colloquialisms used in daily life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/20\/fidlets-fingies-and-riding-a-doo-antarctica-english-slang-terms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Steph Kaefer spent three weeks documenting unique colloquialisms on the frozen continent after newcomers were struck by the distinctive vocabularyIf you know what it means to be a \u201cfidlet\u201d going for a \u201cjolly\u201d in your \u201cdoo\u201d, then you are part of an e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[971,41,1758,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-asia-pacific","category-language","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65080\/revisions\/65092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}