{"id":21639,"date":"2017-07-04T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2017-07-04T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:38:04","slug":"should-we-write-grandad-or-granddad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21639","title":{"rendered":"Should we write grandad or granddad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Nairobi tomorrow to see my son, his wife and my two adorable granddaughters: Catrin (aged six a half) and Kara (aged 10 and a half months).<\/p>\n<p>Now to Catrin I have always been &#8220;Granddad Roger&#8221; as contrasted with &#8220;Grandpa David&#8221;. \u00a0But, while I spell it <em>granddad<\/em>, most people spell it <em>grandad<\/em>. I agree that the first option looks a little odd, but I feel that it is grammatically correct. After all, we write g<em>randdaughter<\/em> and not <em>grandaughter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was interested see that the Mumsnet website actually has a discussion on this theme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mumsnet.com\/Talk\/pedants_corner\/641212-Grandad-or-Granddad\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Nairobi tomorrow to see my son, his wife and my two adorable granddaughters: Catrin (aged six a half) and Kara (aged 10 and a half months). Now to Catrin I have always been &#8220;Granddad Roger&#8221; as contrasted with &#8220;Grandpa David&#8221;. \u00a0But, while I spell it granddad, most people spell it grandad. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","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=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21640,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/21640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}