{"id":17740,"date":"2016-09-10T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17740"},"modified":"2016-09-12T06:44:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T06:44:20","slug":"english-spelling-variants-connexion-vs-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-spelling-variants-connexion-vs-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  spelling variants:  connexion vs connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor mentions another British spelling we might seldom see, though it&#8217;s legal.<\/h1>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve seen <em>connexion<\/em>, I can&#8217;t remember the last time.  However, I looked it up today.  <u>Webster&#8217;s<\/u> says it&#8217;s a Brit. variant of <em>connection<\/em>.  <u>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary &#038; Thesaurus<\/u> lists it, along with <em>connection<\/em>, as a noun form of <em>connect<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Connexion<\/em> is proper to use.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/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 mentions another British spelling we might seldom see, though it&#8217;s legal. Although I&#8217;ve seen connexion, I can&#8217;t remember the last time. However, I looked it up today. Webster&#8217;s says it&#8217;s a Brit. variant of connection. Collins Essential Canadian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-spelling-variants-connexion-vs-connection\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  spelling variants:  connexion vs connection<\/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":[5,1727],"tags":[1877],"class_list":["post-17740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-spelling","tag-connexion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740","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=17740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}