{"id":755,"date":"2008-05-19T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=755"},"modified":"2008-05-19T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T00:53:37","slug":"them-fancy-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/19\/them-fancy-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Them Fancy Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a particularly error-prone Wikipedia entry just now, and was doing some cleanup on it. I was having a hard time finding the correct spelling for one word:<\/p>\n<p><i>According to the various Byzantine <i>calendrical<\/i> systems&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>After a minute of trying to find the correct spelling, I realized that I was overlooking the obvious:<\/p>\n<p><i>According to the various Byzantine <b>calendar<\/b> systems&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no need for a word meaning &#8220;of or pertaining to calendars&#8221; here.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story? Sometimes saying something in big words makes you sound foolish.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a particularly error-prone Wikipedia entry just now, and was doing some cleanup on it. I was having a hard time finding the correct spelling for one word: According to the various Byzantine calendrical systems&#8230; After a minute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/05\/19\/them-fancy-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}