{"id":16698,"date":"2026-03-10T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:23:51","slug":"bristol-live-exclusive-abstract-nouns-become-tool-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16698","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Live exclusive: abstract nouns become tool users"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n

Bristol ‘Live’, the city’s newspaper of (warped) record is a frequent source of exclusives, i.e. news limited to the possession, control or use by a title or group of titles. However, most of these go unrecognised or are ignored by the paper itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

One such occurred this morning when the piece<\/a> in the screenshot below was added to the title’s website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Headline\r\n\r\n
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It seems the city and county of Bristol and its forces of law in order in particular have some very skilled abstract nouns called offers<\/em>. Not only can they control domestic animals – horses – but are also able to use tools\/weapons (batons) at the same time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Why have these highly talented abstract nouns not received attention the so richly merit in the past? Diligent proofreading perchance? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bristol ‘Live’, the city’s newspaper of (warped) record is a frequent source of exclusives, i.e. news limited to the possession, control or use by a title or group of titles. However, most of these go unrecognised or are ignored by the paper itself. One such occurred this morning when the piece in the screenshot below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,17],"tags":[40,36,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-16698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698","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=16698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16715,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions\/16715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}