{"id":730,"date":"2010-05-05T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2010-05-03T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:48:41","slug":"yaka-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/yaka-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaka-wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever made up your own word and wished people all over the world would start saying it, perhaps this <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/the_web\/article7105314.ece\">article<\/a> will be of use.<\/p>\n<p>It tracks the rise of \u2018<strong>yaka-wow<\/strong>\u2019, a mis-transcription of \u201cyuck and wow\u201d by a writer for the Times, a British newspaper. Apparently, within a day the word had gone viral and now has 95,000 hits on Google. Originating in an interview with the neuroscientist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Greenfield,_Baroness_Greenfield\">Baroness Greenfield<\/a>, <em>yaka-wow<\/em> has spawned a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/yakawow\">Twitter stream<\/a> and Facebook page. Why do people love the word so much?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe main reason we\u2019ve all been saying yaka-wow is simply because it is a cool word. It should be used more. Try saying it yourself out loud, yaka-wow, yaka-wow. Doesn\u2019t it just make you mouth happy,\u201d posted Alice Bell, a science communication lecturer at Imperial College London. (Source: The Times)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Honestly, I\u2019m wondering how come so many people read an interview with a neuroscientist in the first place? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever made up your own word and wished people all over the world would start saying it, perhaps this article will be of use. It tracks the rise of \u2018yaka-wow\u2019, a mis-transcription of \u201cyuck and wow\u201d by a writer for the Times, a British newspaper. Apparently, within a day the word had gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16,44],"tags":[3,553,57,44,711],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slang","category-technology","category-words","tag-english","tag-new-language","tag-slang","tag-words","tag-yaka-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}