{"id":37102,"date":"2019-02-14T23:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37102"},"modified":"2019-02-14T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:06:03","slug":"english-numbskull-or-numskull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-numbskull-or-numskull\/","title":{"rendered":"English: numbskull, or numskull?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, some hilarities just present themselves.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>Numbskull<\/em> can also be spelled <em>numskull<\/em>, according to two dictionaries I&#8217;ve checked.\n<\/p><p>\nWho knew?\n<\/p><p>\nSource:\n<\/p><p>\nMish, Frederick C (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.\n<\/p><p>\nGilmour, Lorna (editor). <em>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/em>. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.\n<\/p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, some hilarities just present themselves. Numbskull can also be spelled numskull, according to two dictionaries I&#8217;ve checked. Who knew? Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004. Gilmour, Lorna (editor). Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-numbskull-or-numskull\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: numbskull, or numskull?<\/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":[1727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37102","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=37102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37104,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37102\/revisions\/37104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}