{"id":40044,"date":"2024-04-06T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40044"},"modified":"2024-04-06T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T16:07:04","slug":"word-of-the-day-952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/04\/06\/word-of-the-day-952\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramada<\/em>:<\/p>\n

(US<\/em>) A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches. [from 19th c.] [Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, all these years and never have I run across ramada<\/em>, excepting all those Ramada Inns<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, anywhere until now. I had assumed that Ramada Inn<\/strong><\/em> was named after their founder, whoever that might be. I noted it in “Archaeologists discover remarkable ancient O\u2019Odham village and va\u2019aki beneath Tempe<\/em><\/a>,” Tamara Jager Stewart, american archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (Spring 2024), but the link is to a partial article that does not contain the usage; I suppose you’ll have to give money to the Archaeological Conservancy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, as I do, and then ask them to send the Spring 2024 issue, if this concerns you. Here’s a very partial quote, all typos mine:<\/p>\n

A giant steel ramada was built over the great house in 1932 — a New Deal project — to protect it from the elements, replacing an earlier 1903 wooden protective structure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a mark of ramada’s<\/em> rarity in literary usage, the spell check in use by WordPress<\/strong><\/em> has marked ramada<\/em> as a misspelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramada: (US) A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches. [from 19th c.] [Wiktionary] Funny, all these years and never have I run across ramada, excepting all those Ramada Inns, anywhere until now. I had assumed that Ramada Inn was named after their founder, whoever that might be. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40046,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40044\/revisions\/40046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}