{"id":1589,"date":"2013-04-14T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2013-04-14T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T09:12:59","slug":"a-grammatical-error-made-to-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"A grammatical error made to last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in London yesterday for an Extraordinary General Meeting of <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikimedia UK<\/a>, the Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom, held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/\">British Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was during my visit that I became aware of the existence of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepc.org.uk\/\">Crown Estate Paving Commission<\/a> or CEPC as I walked from Paddington to the library along Marylebone Road. The CEPC is a statutory body first set up by act of Parliament in 1813 to manage and maintain parts Crown land around Regent&#8217;s Park and Regent&#8217;s Street.<\/p>\n<p>One the CEPC&#8217;s railings fronting Marylebone Road, I came across the sign below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1591\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/04\/cepc.jpg\" alt=\"image of a brass plate featuring a greengrocer&#039;s apostrophe\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/04\/cepc.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/04\/cepc-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A greengrocer&#8217;s apostrophe that will last generations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A brass plate featuring a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrophes_.28.22greengrocers.27_apostrophes.22.29\">superfluous or greengrocer&#8217;s apostrophe<\/a>: whoever worded that made up for a lack of education by sheer class. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in London yesterday for an Extraordinary General Meeting of Wikimedia UK, the Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom, held at the British Library. It was during my visit that I became aware of the existence of the Crown Estate Paving Commission or CEPC as I walked from Paddington to the library along Marylebone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[16,10,22],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}