{"id":142017,"date":"2021-08-19T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=142017&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-08-19T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:47:09","slug":"fukuoka-dialect-ranks-first-in-online-search","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-dialect-ranks-first-in-online-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Dialect Ranks First in Online Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka dialect \u2018chikappa\u2019 topped a ranking of the most frequently-searched Japanese dialects. The ranking was based on the number of searches on Yahoo! during 7\/31 and 8\/1. Chikappa, which means &#8220;very,\u201d was the only word that appeared on the list as a Kyushu dialect. The origin of the word is unknown. It carries a stronger meaning than that of similar words such as \u2018bari\u2019 and \u2018erai.\u2019<\/span><b> Source:\u00a0 <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.co.jp\/search?p=%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0&amp;fr=top_ga1_sa&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;ts=247&amp;aq=-1&amp;oq=&amp;at=&amp;ai=996e459b-865d-429b-8b3b-8ff5a8be65a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yahoo! 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The ranking was based on the number of searches on Yahoo! during 7\/31 and 8\/1. Chikappa, which means &#8220;very,\u201d was the only word that appeared on the list as a Kyushu dialect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":142018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-142017","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/142017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}