{"id":37112,"date":"2019-02-18T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37112"},"modified":"2019-02-18T00:09:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T00:09:40","slug":"english-hilarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-hilarities\/","title":{"rendered":"English: hilarities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, a specific question arises: the tutor investigates if hilarity can pluralize to hilarities.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-numbskull-or-numskull\/\">my Feb 14 post<\/a> I use the word <em>hilarities<\/em>, which the spell-checker doesn&#8217;t like, though it&#8217;s happy with <em>hilarity<\/em>. So, is the word <em>hilarities<\/em> valid?\n<\/p><p>\nA source online describes hilarity as &#8220;a situation of humour.&#8221; Well, then, two different situations of humour are two hilarities, aren&#8217;t they?\n<\/p><p>\nPS: The spell checker doesn&#8217;t like <em>humour<\/em>, either:)\n<\/p><p>\nSource:\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/hilarity\">dictionary.cambridge.org<\/a>\n<\/p><p>\nBarber, Katherine et al. <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.\n<\/p>Jack 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, a specific question arises: the tutor investigates if hilarity can pluralize to hilarities. In my Feb 14 post I use the word hilarities, which the spell-checker doesn&#8217;t like, though it&#8217;s happy with hilarity. So, is the word hilarities &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-hilarities\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: hilarities?<\/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-37112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37112","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=37112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37113,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37112\/revisions\/37113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}