{"id":11337,"date":"2015-07-09T14:56:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2015-07-09T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:56:43","slug":"english-word-discoveries-brent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-word-discoveries-brent\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  word discoveries:  brent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares another word discovery from Boggle.<\/h1>\n<p>My regular readers likely know we play Boggle with our kids.<\/p>\n<p>The other night, I claimed the word <em>brent<\/em>, thinking of North Sea brent, which is the output from those oil fields.  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brent_Crude\">Wikipedia<\/a> agrees with me, but our first two dictionaries I checked didn&#8217;t back me up.  Surprised, I realized I might not be able to score the word <em>brent<\/em>.  (We use dictionaries, not the internet, to verify our words.)<\/p>\n<p>The third dictionary I looked in has <em>brent<\/em>, but defines it as &#8220;a small goose with dark grey plumage.&#8221;  Who knew?  Anyway, on that basis, I got credit for the word.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><u>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary &#038; Thesaurus<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares another word discovery from Boggle. My regular readers likely know we play Boggle with our kids. The other night, I claimed the word brent, thinking of North Sea brent, which is the output from those oil fields. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-word-discoveries-brent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  word discoveries:  brent<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,181],"tags":[922,921,850,920],"class_list":["post-11337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-lifestyle","tag-boggle","tag-brent","tag-games","tag-word-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11345,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}