{"id":4490,"date":"2015-07-13T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2016-07-13T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T12:08:20","slug":"dr-laura-bailey-on-the-use-of-the-word-cheeky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/07\/13\/dr-laura-bailey-on-the-use-of-the-word-cheeky\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Bailey on the use of the word \u2018cheeky\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/bailey.html\">Dr Laura Bailey<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a> has had her research into the use of the word \u2018cheeky\u2019 highlighted in a new article on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/uk\">Mental Floss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mental Floss aims to bring interesting facts, trivia, things you didn\u2019t know and things to put a smile on your face, to its readers. In the article, entitled \u2018The New Meaning of \u2018Cheeky\u2019 that Got Americans Confused\u2019, part of a series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch, using Laura Bailey&#8217;s research,\u00a0looks at the use of the word \u2018cheeky\u2019 following a recent buzz on the internet about \u2018having a cheeky Nando\u2019s\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Laura Bailey and her colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/encap\/contactsandpeople\/profiles\/durham-mercedes.html\">Dr Mercedes Durham<\/a>, from Cardiff University, ran a survey on the use and understanding of the word \u2018cheeky\u2019 and whether it sounded natural or awkward. \u00a0The survey showed that everyone understood the older meaning of cheeky, i.e. \u2018cheeky monkey\u2019 &#8211; meaning a misbehaving child, but British respondents had a better understanding of \u2018cheeky Nando\u2019s\u2019 or \u2018cheeky beer\u2019 than the Americans or other countries. Extended meanings of \u2018cheeky\u2019 rated lower as people did not think exercise, teachers, water and dinner at Italian restaurants were usually cheeky.<\/p>\n<p>Laura said \u2018this is one of the most exciting things about doing linguistics: a silly meme that was viral for about a week and then vanished highlighted both a regional difference in the use of cheeky and a new-ish use of the word among younger people.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The full results of the survey are available on Laura\u2019s blog <em>Linguistlaura<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlaura.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/some-cheeky-findings.html\">http:\/\/linguistlaura.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/some-cheeky-findings.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mental Floss <\/em>article can be seen at: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mentalfloss.com\/article\/66021\/new-meaning-cheeky-thats-got-americans-confused\">http:\/\/m.mentalfloss.com\/article\/66021\/new-meaning-cheeky-thats-got-americans-confused<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Laura Bailey from the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics has had her research into the use of the word \u2018cheeky\u2019 highlighted in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/07\/13\/dr-laura-bailey-on-the-use-of-the-word-cheeky\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":4489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}