{"id":16362,"date":"2026-01-14T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:22:15","slug":"a-few-corrections-from-merriam-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16362","title":{"rendered":"A few corrections from Merriam Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamelessly lifted from social media, Merriam-Webster is making an effort to remedy the modern vicious circle (<em>not cycle. Ed.<\/em>) of misquoted adages.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16363\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/merriam_webster.png\" alt=\"Post reads This is coming from a place of love andnsupport, but...\nIt\u2019s \u2018shoo-in, not \u2018shoe-in?\nIt\u2019s \u2018case in point; not \u2018case and point\u2019\nIt\u2019s \u2018moot point, not \u2018mute point\u2019\nIt\u2019s \u2018hunger pangs, not \u2018hunger pains\u2019\nIt\u2019s \u2018jibe with, not \u2018jive with.\" width=\"600\" height=\"555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/merriam_webster.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2026\/01\/merriam_webster-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One stands corrected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> describes itself as &#8220;<em>America&#8217;s most trusted dictionary<\/em>&#8220;. It&#8217;s also the USA&#8217;s oldest dictionary publisher, whose presses first started producing reference books in 1843, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merriam-Webster\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe hopes the company&#8217;s efforts are not in vain, as language skills generally seem to be declining. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamelessly lifted from social media, Merriam-Webster is making an effort to remedy the modern vicious circle (not cycle. Ed.) of misquoted adages. Merriam-Webster describes itself as &#8220;America&#8217;s most trusted dictionary&#8220;. It&#8217;s also the USA&#8217;s oldest dictionary publisher, whose presses first started producing reference books in 1843, according to Wikipedia. Your &#8216;umble scribe hopes the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34],"tags":[36,16,22,35],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","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=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16368,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions\/16368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}