{"id":42633,"date":"2021-12-06T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42633"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:39:28","slug":"vocabulary-copacetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-copacetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: copacetic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions <em>copacetic<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI first heard <em>copacetic<\/em> in the late 80s, on the west coast. I came to realize it meant &#8220;all right&#8221; or &#8220;as you&#8217;d hope.&#8221; I wondered whether it was slang or real. Yet, I heard it a lot from around 88 to 95.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Copacetic<\/em> isn&#8217;t in every dictionary I checked, but it&#8217;s easy to find online. Some treat it like a legitimate word; others suggest it&#8217;s slang. I wouldn&#8217;t use it in a formal essay, but using it informally seems copacetic.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/copacetic\">merriam-webster.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/copacetic\">dictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<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 is always interesting. The tutor mentions copacetic. I first heard copacetic in the late 80s, on the west coast. I came to realize it meant &#8220;all right&#8221; or &#8220;as you&#8217;d hope.&#8221; I wondered whether it was slang &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-copacetic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: copacetic<\/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":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42633","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=42633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42637,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42633\/revisions\/42637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}