{"id":32920,"date":"2012-12-22T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/?p=32920"},"modified":"2015-08-31T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:40:00","slug":"bah-humbug-as-far-as-the-curse-is-found-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/bah-humbug-as-far-as-the-curse-is-found-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bah Humbug! As Far As The Curse Is Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/eleventary\/bah-humbug-as-far-as-the-curse-is-found-2\/attachment\/magoo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32921\" title=\"Magoo\" src=\"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Magoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<em>Humbug<\/em>\u00a0is an old word of indeterminate etymology meaning \u201cspectacle\u201d or \u201choax\u201d or \u201cjest,\u201d often referring to some unjustified reputation or publicity.<\/p>\n<p>2. Of course, the word is most often associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens in\u00a0<em>The Christmas Carol.<\/em>\u00a0He famously dismissed Christmas declaring, \u201cBah! Humbug!\u201d Interestingly, variations of the term make appearances in any number of European languages:<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<em>Humbug<\/em>\u00a0may well be derived from the Old Norse words\u00a0<em>hum,<\/em>\u00a0meaning \u201cnight\u201d or \u201cshadow\u201d or \u201cdark air,\u201d and\u00a0<em>bugges,<\/em>\u00a0a variant of\u00a0<em>bogey,<\/em>\u00a0meaning \u201capparition\u201d or &#8220;ghost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. In Icelandic,\u00a0<em>h\u00fam<\/em>\u00a0means \u201ctwilight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5. In Faeroese,\u00a0<em>h\u00f3mi<\/em>\u00a0means \u201cunclear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0<em>Humi<\/em>\u00a0in Swedish means \u201cdark suspicion.\u201d This word may well be derived from the Old Swedish verb\u00a0<em>hymla,<\/em>\u00a0still in use, which means \u201cto conceal,&#8221; &#8220;to hide,&#8221; or &#8220;to evade the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7. In Old English and Anglo Saxon,\u00a0<em>hum<\/em>\u00a0means \u201cto deceive.\u201d And\u00a0<em>bugges<\/em>\u00a0is a word that appears in Wyclif\u2019s earliest translation of the English Bible meaning \u201cspecter.\u201d And that may well be derived from the much older Celtic word\u00a0<em>bwg,<\/em>\u00a0meaning \u201cscarecrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8. But, it could also be derived from the Early Italian,\u00a0<em>uomo bugiardo<\/em>, which literally means \u201clying man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0<em>Uim-bog<\/em>\u00a0is supposed to mean \u201csoft copper\u201d in Ancient Gaelic\u2014still used in Ireland as slang for \u201cworthless money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>10. In other words, \u201cBah! Humbug!\u201d may very well be an apt declaration for Christmas (much to the chagrin of Scrooge): it is the declaration that Christ has come to expose the fraudulence, the impotence, the bugaboo nonsense of this poor fallen world; but even more, He has come to replace the dark specters, the apparitional hoaxes of sin, the evasions of the truth at the heart of sin.<\/p>\n<p>11. Thus: He has come to make His blessings flow as far as the curse is found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 1.\u00a0Humbug\u00a0is an old word of indeterminate etymology meaning \u201cspectacle\u201d or \u201choax\u201d or \u201cjest,\u201d often referring to some unjustified reputation or publicity. 2. Of course, the word is most often associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens in\u00a0The Christmas Carol.\u00a0He famously dismissed Christmas declaring, \u201cBah! Humbug!\u201d Interestingly, variations of the term make appearances in any number of &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/bah-humbug-as-far-as-the-curse-is-found-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,60],"tags":[92,585,586,791,90],"class_list":["post-32920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-and-celebrations","category-eleventary","tag-ireland","tag-ancient-gaelic","tag-old-swedish","tag-christmas","tag-bah-humbug-interestingly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34374,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920\/revisions\/34374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}