{"id":50660,"date":"2016-10-03T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=50660"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:19:23","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-put-cod-codswallop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-put-cod-codswallop\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Who Put the Cod in Codswallop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/bottleloft_uk_100316\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/26421_uk_100316.jpg\" alt=\"26421_uk_100316\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A favorite PG-13 epithet of <em>Harry\u2019s Potter\u2019s<\/em> Hagrid, you might assume that \u201ccodswallop\u201d is as much of a modern literary invention as \u201cmuggle.\u201d But the term pre-dates J. K. Rowling\u2019s lexicon and there\u2019s an interesting debate over its etymology. One camp claims that it\u2019s related to the history of glass bottles. In the 1870s, Hiram Codd invented the marble-stoppered, \u201cCodd-neck\u201d bottle for soft drinks. \u201cWallop\u201d was the nickname for the cheap beer of the day, so beer drinkers dubbed the contents of Codd\u2019s bottles \u201ca load of coddswallop.\u201d If you can excuse the dropping of one d over time, this colorful tale has a plausible taste. Not so fast, say those in the opposing camp, who claim a similar but somewhat more literal origin: a cod&#8217;s wallop, as in the thumping sound a captured cod makes as it flaps around on the deck of a boat. Imagine someone flapping their lips aimlessly like the hapless cod, and again you have a load of codswallop or nonsense. Fishy? Could be that both theories are complete codswallop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/bottleloft_uk_100316\" target=\"_blank\">BottleLoft<\/a> | $38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite PG-13 epithet of Harry\u2019s Potter\u2019s Hagrid, you might assume that \u201ccodswallop\u201d is as much of a modern&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":50661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50989,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50660\/revisions\/50989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}