{"id":35234,"date":"2018-06-28T21:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35234"},"modified":"2018-06-28T21:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T21:19:24","slug":"homonyms-filter-and-philter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/homonyms-filter-and-philter\/","title":{"rendered":"Homonyms: filter and philter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, homonyms are a favourite topic of mine. The tutor mentions the pair <em>filter<\/em> and <em>philter<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>A <em>filter<\/em> is a porous barrier to separate solids from liquid; a <em>philtre<\/em> is a magic potion &#8211; often, specifically, a love potion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Philtre&#8221; can also be spelled &#8220;philter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <em>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary &#038; Thesaurus<\/em>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, homonyms are a favourite topic of mine. The tutor mentions the pair filter and philter. A filter is a porous barrier to separate solids from liquid; a philtre is a magic potion &#8211; often, specifically, a love potion. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/homonyms-filter-and-philter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homonyms: filter and philter<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234","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=35234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35239,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35234\/revisions\/35239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}