{"id":457,"date":"2016-01-21T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2017-02-12T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:00:18","slug":"word-adoption-2016-boustrophedonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Word Adoption 2016: Boustrophedonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.50.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.50.07-PM-1024x795.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.50.07-PM-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.50.07-PM-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.50.07-PM-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.50.07-PM.png 1710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Boustrophedonic<\/strong> describes a writing system that writes alternatively from left to right then right to left:\u00a0<em>boustro<\/em> means ox, <em>phedon<\/em> means to turn, so boustrophedonic writing is written is as the ox turns to plow a field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.53.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.53.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.53.30-PM.png 742w, https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-12-at-2.53.30-PM-300x98.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a>I encourage you to\u00a0support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\">Wordnik<\/a>, particularly through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=105\">word adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boustrophedonic describes a writing system that writes alternatively from left to right then right to left:\u00a0boustro means ox, phedon means to turn, so boustrophedonic writing is written is as the ox turns to plow a field. I encourage you to\u00a0support Wordnik, particularly through word adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordnik","category-words","cat-26-id","cat-6-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4SNLB-7n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}