{"id":25133,"date":"2019-10-03T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25133"},"modified":"2019-10-03T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T20:27:24","slug":"when-you-have-to-double-check-your-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/03\/when-you-have-to-double-check-your-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Have To Double Check Your Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, gentle reader, you often have to check your trivia that you learn from trivia books as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/fred-worth-is-a-bad-bad-man\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">authors put in fake trivia to catch copyright violators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I have to wonder if I can trust anything in a book excerpted in <em>The Mirror<\/em>:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/what-bumfiddle-really-means-17-20397150\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What &#8216;bumfiddle&#8217; really means and 17 other bizarre word facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact in question is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s tied with <em>strengths<\/em>, the longest word with only one vowel, at nine letters, and both have a single syllable.<\/p>\n<p>So never trust your trivia.  Especially if you get it from a book, the Internet, or me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, gentle reader, you often have to check your trivia that you learn from trivia books as authors put in fake trivia to catch copyright violators. So I have to wonder if I can trust anything in a book excerpted in The Mirror: What &#8216;bumfiddle&#8217; really means and 17 other bizarre word facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25134,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133\/revisions\/25134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}