{"id":37105,"date":"2019-02-15T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37105"},"modified":"2019-02-15T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:20:16","slug":"english-is-it-relatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-is-it-relatable\/","title":{"rendered":"English: is it relatable?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, you never run out of material. The tutor shares an observation &#8211; will it be relatable?<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>relatable (adj):<\/em> 1. sensibly connected to some other event or state; 2. understandable by others.\n<\/p><p>\nThe word <em>relatable<\/em> is listed by a couple of authorities I&#8217;ve checked. Yet, the spell checker in one of the apps I use doesn&#8217;t like it. I wonder who finds this situation relatable?\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:\nMish, Frederick C. <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/relatable\">dictionary.cambridge.org<\/a>\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, you never run out of material. The tutor shares an observation &#8211; will it be relatable? relatable (adj): 1. sensibly connected to some other event or state; 2. understandable by others. The word relatable is listed by a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-is-it-relatable\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: is it relatable?<\/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-37105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37105","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=37105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37107,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37105\/revisions\/37107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}