{"id":3444,"date":"2015-02-19T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:12:18","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-chortle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-chortle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u10e1\u10d0\u10d8\u10dc\u10e2\u10d4\u10e0\u10d4\u10e1\u10dd \u10e1\u10d8\u10e2\u10e7\u10d5\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10d2\u10d0\u10db\u10dd\u10dc\u10d0\u10d7\u10e5\u10d5\u10d0\u10db\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u2013 Chortle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does <em>chortle<\/em> mean?<\/p>\n<p>It is a noun that means\u00a0to laugh because you are amused or pleased by something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i232.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee11\/leeling793\/snort.png\" width=\"252\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n[chawr-tl]\n<p>or<\/p>\n[chor\u00b7tle]\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can thank Lewis Carroll for this delightful word. It is a combination of two words: <strong>ch<\/strong>uck<strong>le<\/strong> and sn<strong>ort<\/strong>.\u00a0Lewis\u00a0Carroll used the term <em>chortle<\/em> in his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/books-fiction-nonfiction-publishers\/through-the-looking-glass-and-what-alice-found-there-oxford-bookworms-green\/\"><em>Through\u00a0the\u00a0Looking-Glass<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1871).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lookingglass.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever the girl told a joke, her uncle let out a huge<em> chortle<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does chortle mean? It is a noun that means\u00a0to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1432,1431,182,1350,234,199,476,424,166,272,1433,1220],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-amused","tag-chortle","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-february-2015","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-interesting-word","tag-laugh","tag-learn","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-pleased","tag-through-the-looking-glass","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}