{"id":3139,"date":"2017-08-01T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiffingwebsites.com\/douglas-watkinson\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2022-08-15T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:20:13","slug":"who-put-the-i-in-mischievous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/post\/who-put-the-i-in-mischievous\/","title":{"rendered":"Who put the \u2018i\u2019 in mischievous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m always banging on about misuse of language, but my current beef is with the word \u2018mischievous\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Who put the \u2018i\u2019 in it and made it \u2018mischiev-i-ous\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t really fall into the category of language reshaping itself with use. It doesn\u2019t make it easier to pronounce, better to look at, easier to spell, or give it a softer or sharper meaning than the original. It\u2019s just a rogue letter stuffed into a word for no reason. I blame Judge Judy for it. Partly. And at a salary of $54,000,000 a year she should know better. In the same episode I watched she also used the word \u2018bring\u2019 instead of \u2018take\u2019, 3 or 4 times. She rubber stamped the idea that you \u2018bring\u2019 your kids to school, rather than \u2018take\u2019 them. Why does it bug me so? I haven\u2019t the faintest idea.<\/p>\n<p>I should have realised long ago that it\u2019s a losing battle\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m always banging on about misuse of language, but my current beef is with the word \u2018mischievous\u2019. Who put the \u2018i\u2019 in it and made it \u2018mischiev-i-ous\u2019? It doesn\u2019t really fall into the category of language reshaping itself with use. It doesn\u2019t make it easier to pronounce, better to look at, easier to spell, or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,32,41,37,39,38,40],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-crimefiction","tag-crimewriter","tag-grammarpolice","tag-novel","tag-police","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffingwebsites.com\/douglaswatkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}