{"id":6106,"date":"2010-03-11T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2010-03-08T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T01:28:31","slug":"the-english-language-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/6106","title":{"rendered":"The English Language Is Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And full of awesome words.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some recent words of the day I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>transmogrify<\/strong>   \\transs-MAH-gruh-fye\\   <em>verb<\/em><br \/>\n: to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, transmogrify is actually a word. I always assumed it was something Bill Watterson made up. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to discover I was wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>zaftig<\/strong>   \\ZAHF-tig\\   <em>adjective<\/em><br \/>\n: having a full rounded figure : pleasingly plump<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a word that needs to be used far more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Far more frequently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>saxicolous<\/strong>   \\sak-SIK-uh-lus\\   <em>adjective<\/em><br \/>\n: inhabiting or growing among rocks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This looks like a capatcha that we&#8217;d define as: &#8220;fabulous sax music&#8221; but instead it&#8217;s something boring.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Augean stable<\/strong>   \\aw-JEE-un-STAY-bul\\   <em>noun<\/em><br \/>\n: a condition or place marked by great accumulation of filth or corruption<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This term should come up far more frequently when describing the Internet or politics, but it never does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And full of awesome words. Here are some recent words of the day I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about. transmogrify \\transs-MAH-gruh-fye\\ verb : to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect That&#8217;s right, transmogrify is actually a word. I always assumed it was something Bill Watterson made up. I&#8217;m delighted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[959],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs","tag-fun-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-1Au","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}