{"id":15,"date":"2006-07-10T19:19:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T18:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-07-10T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T18:19:03","slug":"the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The English language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longest one-syllable word in the English language is &#8220;screeched.&#8221;<br \/>\nNo word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple.<br \/>\n&#8220;Dreamt&#8221; is the only English word that ends in the letters &#8220;mt.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere are only four words in the English language which end in &#8220;dous&#8221;: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re interested in the English language, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#MotherTongue\">this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest one-syllable word in the English language is &#8220;screeched.&#8221; No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple. &#8220;Dreamt&#8221; is the only English word that ends in the letters &#8220;mt.&#8221; There are only four words in the English language which end in &#8220;dous&#8221;: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. If you&#8217;re interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}