{"id":36568,"date":"2018-12-28T23:31:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=36568"},"modified":"2018-12-28T23:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:31:26","slug":"english-opposites-aptitude-and-ineptitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-opposites-aptitude-and-ineptitude\/","title":{"rendered":"English: opposites: aptitude and ineptitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, word curiosities are always interesting. The tutor mentions a pair of opposites.<\/h2>\n<p><em>Aptitude<\/em> means ability even without training, whereas<em> ineptitude<\/em> suggests scarcity of ability even past lack of training. The words are close to opposite, if not actually. Yet, their spellings don&#8217;t quite match. They&#8217;re a curious pair.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna et al. <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, word curiosities are always interesting. The tutor mentions a pair of opposites. Aptitude means ability even without training, whereas ineptitude suggests scarcity of ability even past lack of training. The words are close to opposite, if not actually. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-opposites-aptitude-and-ineptitude\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: opposites: aptitude and ineptitude<\/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-36568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568","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=36568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36572,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions\/36572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}