{"id":622,"date":"2010-02-14T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:44:37","slug":"its-amour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/its-amour\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s amour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovehearts.com\/productdetail.asp?prod_id=128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/love-hearts-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"love hearts\" title=\"love hearts\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/love-hearts-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/love-hearts.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s that time of year again, when you can\u2019t go near a shop, magazine, or website without seeing some combination of pink, red, and the word \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine%27s_Day\">Valentine<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This year we have a little something extra: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61B21P20100212 \">a survey<\/a> of language experts has revealed that <em>amour<\/em> is the most romantic word in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The French word for love beat <em>amore<\/em>, the Italian word for love, in a poll by London-based Today Translations. The survey also found that Italian was the most romantic language, followed by French, with Spanish and English tied in third place.<\/p>\n<p>And the least romantic way to profess your love? In Japanese: <em>watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu<\/em>. I suppose it does look a bit wordy!<\/p>\n<p>What are your favourite romantic words?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time of year again, when you can\u2019t go near a shop, magazine, or website without seeing some combination of pink, red, and the word \u2018Valentine\u2019. This year we have a little something extra: a survey of language experts has revealed that amour is the most romantic word in the world. The French word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,4,506,420,154,327,44],"tags":[607,609,610,608,82,606,605,44],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-events","category-french","category-italian","category-japanese","category-research","category-spanish","category-words","tag-language-experts","tag-love-words","tag-romantic-language","tag-romantic-words","tag-survey","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}