{"id":27434,"date":"2021-08-09T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/why-english-spelling-is-so-weird-and-unpredictable#id30343"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:44:00","slug":"thanks-to-printing-the-written-word-got-cheaper-and-more-plentiful-and-englishs-ludicrous-spelling-systems-grew-alongside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thanks-to-printing-the-written-word-got-cheaper-and-more-plentiful-and-englishs-ludicrous-spelling-systems-grew-alongside\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to printing, \u201cthe written word got cheaper and more plentiful,\u201d and English\u2019s ludicrous spelling systems grew alongside."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As the blogger James Nicoll put it in 1990, English &#8220;pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent?src=longreads&#038;mc_cid=87d544b4a3&#038;mc_eid=21d01bc989\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Aeon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/why-english-spelling-is-so-weird-and-unpredictable\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        As the blogger James Nicoll put it in 1990, English &#8220;pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        &#x21A9;&#xFE0E; Aeon<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27435,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434\/revisions\/27435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}