{"id":10818,"date":"2008-01-05T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2008\/01\/05\/skewwhiff.html"},"modified":"2008-01-05T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T17:53:07","slug":"skewwhiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2008\/01\/05\/skewwhiff\/","title":{"rendered":"skewwhiff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I read this word in <cite>Perdido Street Station<\/cite>, I assumed it was a misprint; but I looked it up, and sure enough, \"skewwhiff\" is an adjective or adverb from British dialect, meaning \"askew\" or \"awry.\"<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, almost all of first few pages of Google search results for this term are definitions of it; it's not until the third or fourth page of results that actual uses of the term in text start to appear, such as a press release that refers to \"this skewwhiff logic, where one set of rules would exist for one set of companies, while others were excluded[...].\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read this word in Perdido Street Station, I assumed it was a misprint; but I looked it up, and sure enough, &#8220;skewwhiff&#8221; is an adjective or adverb from&#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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}