{"id":33117,"date":"2018-05-03T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=33117"},"modified":"2018-05-03T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:44:31","slug":"english-food-fibre-or-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-food-fibre-or-fiber\/","title":{"rendered":"English, food: fibre, or fiber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Food research leads to self-tutoring: the tutor follows a query about spelling.<\/h1>\n<p>When I type <em>fibre<\/em>, the screen cautions me I might have it wrong. Really?<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#aa7733;color:#ffddaa;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:130%;font-family:monospace;padding:16px\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">fibre:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster: <em>British of<\/em> <span style=\"color:#aa7733;background-color:#ffddaa\">fiber<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oxford Canadian: <em>dietary fibre<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oxford Canadian doesn&#8217;t list <span style=\"color:#aa7733;background-color:#ffddaa\">fiber<\/span>. Merriam-Webster does: from their point of view, one of its meanings is dietary fibre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (ed). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/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>Food research leads to self-tutoring: the tutor follows a query about spelling. When I type fibre, the screen cautions me I might have it wrong. Really? fibre: Merriam-Webster: British of fiber Oxford Canadian: dietary fibre Oxford Canadian doesn&#8217;t list fiber. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-food-fibre-or-fiber\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, food: fibre, or fiber?<\/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":[5,2870,1727,1],"tags":[2882,2883],"class_list":["post-33117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-food","category-spelling","category-uncategorized","tag-fiber-vs-fibre","tag-which-spelling-of-fibre-or-fiber-is-correct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33117","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=33117"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33193,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33117\/revisions\/33193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}