{"id":47538,"date":"2024-07-10T22:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47538"},"modified":"2024-07-10T22:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:20:49","slug":"english-whomst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-whomst\/","title":{"rendered":"English: whomst(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, surprises come up. The tutor mentions <em>whomst<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been hearing <em>whomst<\/em> lately, out of the blue, enough that I decided to look it up. Until a few days back, I&#8217;d never heard of it. For that, there seems a reason.<\/p>\n<p>\nI checked three different hard-copy dictionaries, none of which has an entry for <em>whomst<\/em>. The Internet seems to suggest that <em>whomst<\/em> is used, playfully, in popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/articles\/whomst-grammatically-correct\">yourdictionary.com<\/a><\/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, surprises come up. The tutor mentions whomst. I&#8217;ve been hearing whomst lately, out of the blue, enough that I decided to look it up. Until a few days back, I&#8217;d never heard of it. For that, there seems &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-whomst\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: whomst(?)<\/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":[3238,3241,3237,3240],"class_list":["post-47538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-humour","tag-pop-culture","tag-slang","tag-trendy-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47538","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=47538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47544,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47538\/revisions\/47544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}