{"id":33545,"date":"2018-05-17T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=33545"},"modified":"2018-05-17T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:46:01","slug":"homophones-ween-vs-wean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/homophones-ween-vs-wean\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophones: ween vs wean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>More self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions the homophones ween and wean.<\/h1>\n<p>ween: to believe by educated guess.<\/p>\n<p>wean: to change away from a habit: for example, to bring a baby to eat solid food instead of milk.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/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>More self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions the homophones ween and wean. ween: to believe by educated guess. wean: to change away from a habit: for example, to bring a baby to eat solid food instead of milk. Source: Mish, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/homophones-ween-vs-wean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homophones: ween vs wean<\/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":[5,1],"tags":[965,966],"class_list":["post-33545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","tag-homonyms","tag-homophones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545","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=33545"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33564,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545\/revisions\/33564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}