{"id":2603,"date":"1998-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-01-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/01\/25\/ddictionary-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T00:39:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T08:39:09","slug":"ddictionary-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/01\/26\/ddictionary-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"dd: From Dodgson to Dodo (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>I ought to have said \"an ideologically correct student\" rather than \"a conscientious student.\" Oh, well, <i>esprit d'escalier<\/i> and all that.<\/p>\r\n<p>Pierre Abbat once found a question and its answer on the same page of a Farsi dictionary:<\/p>\r\n<p>cheqadr? chahel. (how many? forty.)<\/p>\r\n<p>He adds: \"What is really striking is that this could as easily be true of their Spanish translations: cuantos? cuarenta.\"<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 17 March 1998)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/01\/25\/ddictionary\/\">Back to column dd<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-llowercase-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}