{"id":801917,"date":"2026-07-14T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801917\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:16:08","slug":"puggled-scumfished-or-utterly-shrammed-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801917\/","title":{"rendered":"Puggled, scumfished or utterly shrammed | Extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was interesting to learn of the word \u201cputhered\u201d to describe the feeling of being overheated (Letters, 9 July<\/a>). It reminded me that in the pre-climate-crisis winters of my late 50s\/early 60s Hampshire childhood, we had a word for the opposite experience. My parents would often come in from the cold claiming to be \u201cshrammed\u201d. Is the word now redundant as well as obsolete?
Claire Whatley
Berwick St James, Wiltshire<\/p>\n

In County Durham they are \u201cscumfished\u201d by this hot weather.
Jan Davinson
Beetham, Cumbria<\/p>\n

In north-east Scotland people would say: \u201cI\u2019m fair puggled.\u201d
Ian Arnott
Peterborough<\/p>\n

Jonathan Jones gives the Constable exhibition at Ipswich five stars (The Hay Wain: Walking Constable\u2019s Landscape review \u2013 a masterpiece for the climate crisis age, 10 July<\/a>). I would do the same for his review. A perfect, ekphrastic prose-poem in its own right. I read the last line and burst into tears.
Ben Entwistle
Crewe, Cheshire<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, in a report of a football match in the Times, I was described as \u201cdiminutive but nippy\u201d (Letters, 12 July<\/a>). Not so nippy now, but maybe more dim.
Alan Green
London<\/p>\n

So, how high can a labrador get (Labrador rescued after \u2018eating discarded cannabis\u2019 on Ben Nevis hike, 12 July<\/a>)?
Bernard Taylor
Billingham, County Durham<\/p>\n

Did the cannabis-eating dog order a pizza when it came round?
Tony Mitchell
Worsley, Greater Manchester<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was interesting to learn of the word \u201cputhered\u201d to describe the feeling of being overheated (Letters, 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-801917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}