{"id":1687,"date":"2004-01-14T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/01\/14\/1687.html"},"modified":"2004-01-14T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T06:43:03","slug":"plurals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/01\/14\/plurals\/","title":{"rendered":"Plurals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.oygevalt.org\/\">Joe<\/a> pointed recently to a cool <cite>Straight Dope<\/cite> article on how to correctly form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mplurals.html\">plurals<\/a> of various words and various types of words.  It's long, but worth reading, especially if you think that <span class=\"word-as-word\">virii<\/span> is the plural of <span class=\"word-as-word\">virus.<\/span>  Or if you want to use the correct plural for <span class=\"word-as-word\">penis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelatedly: Food, dieting, and weight-loss seem to be big topics in various places lately, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamohanraj.com\/journal\/\">Mary Anne's journal<\/a> to Joe's.  I was momentarily surprised by the coincidence, but then remembered that it's the beginning of January, a traditional time for both trying new things and attempting to get rid of weight gained during the holidays.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe pointed recently to a cool Straight Dope article on how to correctly form plurals of various words and various&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}