{"id":26872,"date":"2017-12-11T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=26872"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T20:39:18","slug":"english-what-does-picayune-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-picayune-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does <i>picayune<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor brings up the word <i>picayune<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"background-color:#dedeff;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:130%;font-family:monospace\"><span style=\"font-size:120%\">picayune<\/span>(adj): not worth consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The chef measured a teaspoon of salt from her palm, asserting <em><\/em>the difference between it and that from a measuring spoon to be picayune.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <i>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/i>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/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>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor brings up the word picayune. picayune(adj): not &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-picayune-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does <i>picayune<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/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],"tags":[2632,1222,2633],"class_list":["post-26872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-picayune-in-a-sentence","tag-vocabulary","tag-what-does-picayune-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872","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=26872"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26909,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions\/26909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}