{"id":57568,"date":"2023-01-03T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=57568"},"modified":"2023-01-03T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:27:43","slug":"ask-llog-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=57568","title":{"rendered":"Ask LLOG: Furniture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Ladd wrote to ask about the word furniture<\/strong><\/em>, found in a note at the end of an online Guardian story (Ollie Neas, \"\u2018Burned the hill down\u2019: billionaire\u2019s runaway fireworks spark New Zealand furore<\/a>\", 1\/3\/2023), which read<\/p>\n

This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve. This was incorrect and has been removed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That note now has \"subheading\" in place of \"furniture\":<\/p>\n

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And shortly after the original query, Bob sent in the answer — according to the Guardian's own \"Newspaper terminology\" page<\/a>, \"Page furniture\" means \"everything on the page except pictures or text of stories\".<\/p>\n

The term subheading<\/strong><\/em> didn't seem quite right to me, because the corrected date information is actually in in a picture caption:<\/p>\n

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I always through that subheading<\/em><\/strong> (or subhead<\/strong><\/em>, or whatever) referred to the summary line below the headline, as below in the cited article:<\/p>\n

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But maybe I'm wrong — the Wiktionary entry<\/a> suggests that I might be. The Guardian's \"Newspaper terminology\" page doesn't have an entry for subheading<\/strong><\/em>, so there's no answer from that quarter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on the furniture<\/em><\/strong> front, the Wiktionary entry<\/a> does give us sense #7:<\/p>\n

(journalism<\/em>) Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.<\/p>\n

The OED hasn't caught up with this one yet, but does offer a palette of vaguely analogous senses<\/a>, including<\/p>\n

Apparel, dress, outfit, personal belongings.
\nArmour, accoutrements, weapons, munitions of war.
\nThe harness, housings, trappings, etc. of a horse or other draught animal […] Similarly, the hood, bells, etc. of a hawk.
\nHangings and ornamental drapery; also, the coverlets and linen for a bed.
\nImplements, tools, utensils; rigging, stores, and tackle of a ship; military engines and defensive works.<\/p>\n

…and especially:<\/p>\n

Accessories, appendages. (Formerly also plural<\/em> in the same sense.) Now only technical<\/em> in specific applications; used, e.g., for the finger-plates, handles, locks, etc. of a door; the plates and handles, etc. of a coffin; and the like; spec. the mountings of a rifle.
\nplural.<\/em> Adjuncts or condiments of a salad.
\n(Printing),<\/em> the wooden inclosing strips and quoins which surround the matter in the chase.<\/p>\n

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Bob Ladd wrote to ask about the word furniture, found in a note at the end of an online Guardian story (Ollie Neas, \"\u2018Burned the hill down\u2019: billionaire\u2019s runaway fireworks spark New Zealand furore\", 1\/3\/2023), which read This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jargon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57580,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57568\/revisions\/57580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}