{"id":21497,"date":"2017-06-06T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21497"},"modified":"2017-06-06T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:54:41","slug":"the-35-words-youre-probably-getting-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21497","title":{"rendered":"The 35 words you&#8217;re (probably) getting wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that English is an easy language to pick up quickly at the basic level &#8211; no declension of nouns, minimal conjugation of verbs, a fairly forgiving approach to word order. But&#8217;s it&#8217;s a tough language to speak well &#8211; \u00a0a massive vocabulary with lots of words that seem similar or the same, inconsistent pronunciation of letters, and an awful lot of tenses.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jun\/05\/the-35-words-youre-probably-getting-wrong\">this article<\/a> in today&#8217;s Guardian&#8221; newspaper. Harold Evans looks at 35 words which are commonly misused &#8211; such as continual\/continuous, disinterested\/ uninterested, less\/fewer. Check it out and improve your word usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that English is an easy language to pick up quickly at the basic level &#8211; no declension of nouns, minimal conjugation of verbs, a fairly forgiving approach to word order. But&#8217;s it&#8217;s a tough language to speak well &#8211; \u00a0a massive vocabulary with lots of words that seem similar or the same, inconsistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21497","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\/21497","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=21497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21499,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497\/revisions\/21499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}