{"id":12322,"date":"2008-10-30T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/ditionary.html"},"modified":"2008-10-30T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:30:46","slug":"ditionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/30\/ditionary.html","title":{"rendered":"Ditionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">A subject; a tributary.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ditionary&quot; is a word that looks like it is mis-spelled, but which is spelled correctly.<\/p>\n<p>I do not fret over spelling or grammar in the context of interpersonal communications. I lack the mental invective for peeves. Still, for the sake of provoking a reaction I might throw this word into a correspondence some day soon.<\/p>\n<p>I became sensitive to the use of &quot;is&quot; and &quot;are&quot; when used in reference to collective nouns when I heard someone say that something would happen &quot;when your dues is paid.&quot; Someone attempted to correct the speaker, but he was prepared with a grammar book to demonstrate that &quot;dues&quot; is a collective noun that represents a singular thing. It was an interesting lesson (from a high school Latin teacher) thrown into a seemingly casual conversation. I think this discussion led to talk of &quot;news&quot; being a similar noun, one singular word comprising an array of mental objects but which sounds like it should be plural because it ends in an S.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A subject; a tributary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3cK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}