{"id":37289,"date":"2019-03-13T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37289"},"modified":"2019-03-13T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:55:15","slug":"english-minder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-minder\/","title":{"rendered":"English: &#8220;Minder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor reminisces, mentioning the term &#8220;minder&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhen I was a kid, I used to watch a British TV show called <em>Minder<\/em>. I&#8217;d say it wasn&#8217;t a comedy, yet was very funny. It was about a small-time crook who had a helper whose title was &#8220;Minder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>minder<\/em>, it turns out, is a noun that means &#8220;one who looks after something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:\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>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor reminisces, mentioning the term &#8220;minder&#8221;. When I was a kid, I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-minder\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: &#8220;Minder&#8221;<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289","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=37289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37292,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289\/revisions\/37292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}