{"id":34225,"date":"2018-05-28T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=34225"},"modified":"2018-05-28T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T23:04:14","slug":"english-homonyms-leech-vs-leach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-leech-vs-leach\/","title":{"rendered":"English: homonyms: leech vs leach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, homonyms are a curiosity. The tutor mentions another pair: leech and leach.<\/h1>\n<p>leech (n): a worm-like creature that sucks blood from its prey.<\/p>\n<p>leach (v): to wash out, as nutrients from soil by over-watering.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/i>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/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, homonyms are a curiosity. The tutor mentions another pair: leech and leach. leech (n): &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-homonyms-leech-vs-leach\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: homonyms: leech vs leach<\/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":[5,1],"tags":[965,966,2926],"class_list":["post-34225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","tag-homonyms","tag-homophones","tag-leech-vs-leach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225","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=34225"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34238,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions\/34238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}