{"id":13245,"date":"2020-09-07T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:39:54","slug":"laura-bailey-appears-on-bbc-radio-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/09\/07\/laura-bailey-appears-on-bbc-radio-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Bailey appears on BBC Radio Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1707\/bailey-laura\">Dr Laura Bailey<\/a>, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, has appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p08n7b2k\">Mid-Morning on BBC Radio Bristol<\/a> for a segment discussing\u00a0 the meaning of the phrase \u2018Give them an inch and they&#8217;ll take a mile\u2019 and where this saying comes from (segment starts at 3:42:48).<\/p>\n<p>Laura says: &#8220;It seems like the version we know is fairly recent, within about the last 100 years, and the phrase originally used to be \u2018Give them an inch and they&#8217;ll take an ell\u2019. The first example of this was in a book of proverbs by John Hayworth in 1846. An ell is what we now know as a cubit: the distance between the elbow to the fingertip. Over the years, it\u2019s transformed into a new phrase to reflect words that are more familiar and sound the roughly the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Laura Bailey, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, has appeared on Mid-Morning on BBC Radio Bristol for a segment discussing\u00a0 the meaning of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/09\/07\/laura-bailey-appears-on-bbc-radio-bristol\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124],"tags":[1279,54574,5349,8814,21903,163949,475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}