{"id":38908,"date":"2020-02-25T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38908"},"modified":"2020-02-25T01:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T01:38:17","slug":"english-non-words-irrecognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-non-words-irrecognizable\/","title":{"rendered":"English: non-words: &#8220;irrecognizable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor relates a story.<\/h2>\n<p>\nFor years I&#8217;ve used &#8220;irrecognizable.&#8221; I guess I just didn&#8217;t type it. When I did yesterday, the spell-checker complained. (I think the spell checker and I have been ready to divorce numerous times, but that&#8217;s another story:)<\/p>\n<p>Good thing, I guess, that I haven&#8217;t divorced the spell checker yet, because it was right: I can&#8217;t find &#8220;irrecognizable&#8221; anywhere. It must just be a figment of my imagination?(!)?<\/p>\n<p>The spell checker is happy with the word &#8220;unrecognizable.&#8221; I hope it can forgive me:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. <em>The 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>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor relates a story. For years I&#8217;ve used &#8220;irrecognizable.&#8221; I guess I just didn&#8217;t type it. When I did yesterday, the spell-checker complained. (I think the spell checker and I have been ready to divorce numerous &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-non-words-irrecognizable\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: non-words: &#8220;irrecognizable&#8221;<\/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":[1727,2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spelling","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38908","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=38908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38910,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38908\/revisions\/38910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}