{"id":36136,"date":"2018-11-12T00:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T00:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=36136"},"modified":"2018-11-12T00:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T00:58:22","slug":"english-moot-the-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-moot-the-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"English: moot, the verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, words can surprise. The tutor mentions the verb <em>moot<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-size:130%;font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-bottom:16px\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">moot (verb):<\/span><br \/>\nto propose for discussion, or to actively discuss from different points of view.\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <em>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/em>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/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, words can surprise. The tutor mentions the verb moot. moot (verb): to propose for discussion, or to actively discuss from different points of view. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004. Gilmour, Lorna (editor). &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-moot-the-verb\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: moot, the verb<\/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":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36136","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=36136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36138,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36136\/revisions\/36138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}