{"id":6317,"date":"2015-08-07T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:54:20","slug":"pomicide-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6317","title":{"rendered":"Pomicide &#8211; word of the year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before of my love of the live cricket commentary on Radio 4 long wave (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2381\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However, I could hardly believe my ears during the latest match in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ashes\">Ashes series<\/a> being played at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trent_Bridge\">Trent Bridge, Nottingham<\/a>, home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trentbridge.co.uk\/\">Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>England won the toss, elected to bowl first and put Australia into bat. Before lunch Australia were all out for 60 runs (including extras), clocking up the worst batting performance by an Australian team in an Ashes match for some 8 decades.<\/p>\n<p>If I couldn&#8217;t believe my ears, one can just imagine how well such a shambolic performance with the bat went down in the Australian media.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>&#8216;s sports headline writer perhaps encapsulated feelings best with the back page headline &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s Pomicide<\/em>&#8220;, as per the photograph below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/pomicide.jpeg\" alt=\"shot of Sydney Morning Herald back page with headline It&#039;s Pomicide\" width=\"306\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/pomicide.jpeg 306w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/08\/pomicide-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whilst I take a rather ambiguous attitude to newspaper headline writers and their frequently inappropriate use of puns, the invention of Pomicide strikes me as most apposite. Should I recommend it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/a> for its <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/tag\/word-of-the-year\/\">word of the year<\/a> accolade?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before of my love of the live cricket commentary on Radio 4 long wave (posts passim). However, I could hardly believe my ears during the latest match in the Ashes series being played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. England won the toss, elected to bowl first and put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","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\/6317","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=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}