{"id":22774,"date":"2016-08-25T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22774"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:36:43","slug":"turns-out-dick-is-really-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/turns-out-dick-is-really-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out Dick Is Really Interesting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how &#8220;Dick&#8221; became short for &#8220;Rick&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. But it turns out that the reason, if the following video is accurate, is interesting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BH1NAwwKtcg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have two questions for the historical linguists in the room. First, is there a name for this rhymification effect? Is is common? Is it confined to certain regions or cultures? Is it linked to Cockney in some way?<\/p>\n<p>OK, that was a lot of questions, but really, all the same question.  My second one is simpler: Where does the phrase &#8220;Swinging dick&#8221; come in? It is a Britishism for, I think, Square Mile money managers and investors.  According to something I saw on TV once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how &#8220;Dick&#8221; became short for &#8220;Rick&#8221;? Probably not. But it turns out that the reason, if the following video is accurate, is interesting. I have two questions for the historical linguists in the room. First, is there a name for this rhymification effect? Is is common? Is it confined to certain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/turns-out-dick-is-really-interesting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turns Out Dick Is Really Interesting.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[181,1526,15,2025,2026,2027],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Vk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}