{"id":12365,"date":"2023-01-30T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:21:22","slug":"more-reach-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12365","title":{"rendered":"More Reach ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my first paid job after graduating, your ‘umble scribe received further instruction in English, namely adapting what he wrote to fit in with his then employer’s house style, part of which included the avoidance any ambiguity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As Merriam Webster points out, ambiguity is defined<\/a> as “a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways: an ambiguous word or expression<\/em>“.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

If only those writing today’s newspapers had also received such training as your correspondent or access to a newsroom dictionary with the above definition for the entry ambiguity<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Experience would suggest neither situation obtains, particularly in the titles of the Reach plc stable of regional “news<\/em>” titles, as this ambiguous offering<\/a> from the Daily Post\/North Wales Live implies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Which establishment is serving weary travellers – the inn or the country park?<\/figcaption><\/figure> \r\n\r\n

Your correspondent diligently read the piece to discover how and what Loggerheads Country Park has been serving weary travellers down the centuries, all to no avail. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my first paid job after graduating, your ‘umble scribe received further instruction in English, namely adapting what he wrote to fit in with his then employer’s house style, part of which included the avoidance any ambiguity. As Merriam Webster points out, ambiguity is defined as “a word or expression that can be understood in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12386,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}