{"id":17716,"date":"2019-01-02T06:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2019-01-02T06:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:49:05","slug":"an-x-does-x-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/01\/02\/an-x-does-x-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"A(n) X does X revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This is fairly random, but a few days ago a word thing occurred to me that Jed had brought up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/01\/11\/bburglar\/\">twenty years ago<\/a>. That conversation was about the word <i>cook<\/i>, and how unusual it was. That is, for most activities (let\u2019s call them <i>verbs<\/i>), the word for the person who does the activity has a suffix (such as <i>-er<\/i>) or other indication that it is a noun form. A person who <i>bakes<\/i> is a <i>baker<\/i>; a person who <i>swims<\/i> is a <i>swimmer<\/i>; a person who <I>mocks<\/I> is a <i>mocker<\/i>. But a person who <i>cooks<\/i> is a <I>cook<\/i>. Jed was asking for other examples, and I said that a <i>fuck<\/i> was someone who <i>fucked<\/i>, although generally, as it were, not to put too fine a point on it, <i>up<\/i>. This was not, alas, accepted.\r\n<p>At any rate, a few days ago I came up with one that it turns out is not on  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/lists\/bb-doers-list\/\">the Mark-Jason Dominus list of <strong>A(n) X Does X<\/strong><\/a>: <i>monitor<\/i>. So I thought I would open the whole question up to readers to see if there are still more.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slow cooker cooks slowly, but a slow cook cooks poorly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answers","category-lists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17719,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions\/17719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}