{"id":38465,"date":"2019-11-19T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38465"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:06:12","slug":"english-trite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-trite\/","title":{"rendered":"English: trite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary, especially uncommon, short words, is always interesting.<\/h2>\n<p>\ntrite: overused; automatically said, so apparently insincere.\n<\/p>\n<p>Examples in italics:<\/p>\n<p>I fell down the stairs. <em>-You should be more careful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I caught the flu. <em>-I&#8217;m so sorry to hear it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/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, vocabulary, especially uncommon, short words, is always interesting. trite: overused; automatically said, so apparently insincere. Examples in italics: I fell down the stairs. -You should be more careful. I caught the flu. -I&#8217;m so sorry to hear it. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-trite\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: trite<\/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-38465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38465","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=38465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38469,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38465\/revisions\/38469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}