{"id":25732,"date":"2020-04-10T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25732"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:21:15","slug":"word-of-the-day-furlough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25732","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: furlough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until a couple of weeks ago, most people had never heard the word furlough. Now it is everywhere. But what does it mean? And where did it come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a noun, it has three meanings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>a&nbsp;vacation&nbsp;or&nbsp;leave&nbsp;of&nbsp;absence&nbsp;granted&nbsp;to&nbsp;an&nbsp;enlisted&nbsp;person&nbsp;<\/li><li>a&nbsp;temporary&nbsp;leave&nbsp;of&nbsp;absence&nbsp;authorised&nbsp;for&nbsp;a&nbsp;prisoner&nbsp;from&nbsp;a&nbsp;penitentiary&nbsp;<\/li><li>a&nbsp;usually&nbsp;temporary&nbsp;layoff&nbsp;from&nbsp;work&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly,  in current circumstances of the coronavirus crisis, it is the last meaning that is relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The origin of the word is the period \u00a01615\u201325. It is a variant\u00a0of\u00a0earlier\u00a0<em>furlogh<\/em> or\u00a0<em>furloff<\/em>\u00a0from the\u00a0Dutch word <em>erlof<\/em> for leave,\u00a0permission and the current\u00a0pronunciation\u00a0is by\u00a0association\u00a0with\u00a0<em>dough<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until a couple of weeks ago, most people had never heard the word furlough. Now it is everywhere. But what does it mean? And where did it come from? As a noun, it has three meanings: a&nbsp;vacation&nbsp;or&nbsp;leave&nbsp;of&nbsp;absence&nbsp;granted&nbsp;to&nbsp;an&nbsp;enlisted&nbsp;person&nbsp; a&nbsp;temporary&nbsp;leave&nbsp;of&nbsp;absence&nbsp;authorised&nbsp;for&nbsp;a&nbsp;prisoner&nbsp;from&nbsp;a&nbsp;penitentiary&nbsp; a&nbsp;usually&nbsp;temporary&nbsp;layoff&nbsp;from&nbsp;work&nbsp; Clearly, in current circumstances of the coronavirus crisis, it is the last meaning that is relevant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25735,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732\/revisions\/25735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}