{"id":6382,"date":"2010-08-26T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2010-08-26T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:00:37","slug":"language-tip-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6382","title":{"rendered":"Language Tip of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Penultimate<\/em> means &#8220;second to last.&#8221;  It does not mean &#8220;better\/cooler than ultimate,&#8221; in the opposite way that you might use <em>infamous<\/em> instead of <em>famous<\/em>.  (It doesn&#8217;t mean an arbitrary one in a group, either)<\/p>\n<p>Google on <em>penultimate guide<\/em> and you&#8217;ll see a plethora <del datetime=\"2010-08-25T16:13:38+00:00\">of pi\u00f1atas<\/del> of misuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penultimate means &#8220;second to last.&#8221; It does not mean &#8220;better\/cooler than ultimate,&#8221; in the opposite way that you might use infamous instead of famous. (It doesn&#8217;t mean an arbitrary one in a group, either) Google on penultimate guide and you&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-peeve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}