{"id":13582,"date":"2011-02-02T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2011\/02\/02\/texas-city.html"},"modified":"2011-02-02T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:21:10","slug":"texas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2011\/02\/02\/texas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eyebrow-raising headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/bp-plans-to-sell-texas-city-california-plants\/124400\/on\">BP plans to sell Texas city, California plants<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I knew BP was powerful, but do they really own an entire city in Texas?<\/p>\n<p>The first line of the story doesn't help much:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>British oil giant BP Plc intends to sell its giant Texas city sprawling 1,200-acre plant [...]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But later in the story, a United Steelworkers executive is quoted as saying &ldquo;BP had a terrible reputation in Texas City,&rdquo; which reveals the answer to the mystery: there's a city in Texas called Texas City. So the writers just failed to capitalize the C in <i>City<\/i> in both the headline and the story, and then wrote a sloppy opening sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was amused. And even with the correction, it would have taken me a moment to figure out that the headline meant it was selling its Texas City <em>plant<\/em>, rather than the city itself.<\/p>\n<p>(I also had a moment of wondering whether &ldquo;California plants&rdquo; was a euphemism for a certain herb often associated with some parts of California, but I think that was due to my being sleepy rather than anything wrong with the headline.)<\/p>\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;I should note that it's possible that some of the odd-seeming-to-me phrasing is due to this article being from an Indian publication; I know that Indian English doesn't always match American English phrasings. But I don't think that the uncapitalized C is an Indian English thing; I think it's just sloppy editing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyebrow-raising headline: BP plans to sell Texas city, California plants I knew BP was powerful, but do they really own an entire city in Texas? The first line of the&#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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582","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=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}