{"id":38812,"date":"2020-02-03T21:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38812"},"modified":"2020-02-03T21:41:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:41:35","slug":"informal-english-kiddo-or-kiddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/informal-english-kiddo-or-kiddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Informal English: kiddo, or kiddie?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Canadian and American English: the tutor mentions a possible difference.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>Merriam-Webster<\/em> mentions &#8220;kiddo&#8221; as a child or kid; on the other hand, <em>Oxford Canadian<\/em> mentions &#8220;kiddie&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI recall, as a child, reading the word &#8220;kiddo&#8221; in American books, but seldom hear of it now. &#8220;Kiddie&#8221; does seem, to me, to be more common (but I&#8217;m Canadian).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCould &#8220;kiddo&#8221; be American for &#8220;kiddie?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (Editor). <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2005.<\/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>Self-tutoring about Canadian and American English: the tutor mentions a possible difference. Merriam-Webster mentions &#8220;kiddo&#8221; as a child or kid; on the other hand, Oxford Canadian mentions &#8220;kiddie&#8221;. I recall, as a child, reading the word &#8220;kiddo&#8221; in American books, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/informal-english-kiddo-or-kiddie\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Informal English: kiddo, or kiddie?<\/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-38812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812","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=38812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38817,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812\/revisions\/38817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}