{"id":620,"date":"2002-09-19T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2002-09-19T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/09\/19\/620.html"},"modified":"2002-09-19T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2002-09-19T21:44:38","slug":"slink-slank-slunk-words-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/09\/19\/slink-slank-slunk-words-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Slink, slank, slunk (words easily confused #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We've had half a dozen submissions in the past couple years that include phrases of the form \"[person] slunk down in [possessive pronoun] chair.\"  I assume that what's meant is \"sunk down in\" (I would say \"sank down in,\" but <i>sunk<\/i> is an accepted alternate past tense of <i>sink<\/i>) but I find it interesting that the same misuse would come up repeatedly, in stories by a variety of different authors.  I wonder if it's a common misuse in spoken English and I've just never noticed it.<\/p>\n<p>(On the off chance that anyone reading this is confused, <i>slunk<\/i> is the past tense of <i>slink;<\/i> it implies motion from one place to another.)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I took a nap earlier for an hour or so.  Doesn't actually make up for long-term lack of sleep, but helps some.  Small triumphs.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had half a dozen submissions in the past couple years that include phrases of the form &#8220;[person] slunk down&#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":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-words-easily-confused"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}