{"id":17707,"date":"2025-07-09T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:06:59","slug":"old-word-squitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/07\/09\/old-word-squitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Old word: squitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on eBay, an old letter of compliant from the days when there were hay-dealers in Shelton, which enshrines the old agricultural word &#8216;Squitch&#8217;. Meaning couch grass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Squitch<\/strong>. <em>Triticum repens<\/em>, L. (Lichfield [mid Staffordshire]) \u2014 iv. 415. <em>Triticum repens<\/em>, L., and <em>Agrostis vulgaris<\/em>, L. Worc[estershire]. \u2014xvii. 38. Also <strong>Scutch<\/strong>.&#8221; (from <em>Old Country and Farming Words<\/em> (1880). <\/p>\n<p>Evidently a word known in mid Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the 1870s, and still to be understood in Warrington and Stoke in 1932.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on eBay, an old letter of compliant from the days when there were hay-dealers in Shelton, which enshrines the old agricultural word &#8216;Squitch&#8217;. Meaning couch grass. &#8220;Squitch. Triticum repens, L. (Lichfield [mid Staffordshire]) \u2014 iv. 415. Triticum repens, L., and Agrostis vulgaris, L. Worc[estershire]. \u2014xvii. 38. Also Scutch.&#8221; (from Old Country and Farming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}