{"id":2232,"date":"2012-09-13T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:20","slug":"the-correct-word-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-correct-word-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The correct word is . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s definitely time to start a proper word usage list. I just spotted the third statement about &#8220;peek interest&#8221; made by a college educated person. This is going to be a running list. I&#8217;ll add to it when I spot anything new that belongs here. If you have a suggestion, put in the Talkback section and I&#8217;ll add it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Pique<\/strong> Something may <a href=\"http:\/\/public.wsu.edu\/~brians\/errors\/peaked.html\">pique<\/a> your interest, but it cannot peek or peak it.<\/p>\n<p>Apostrophes (&#8216;) &#8211; words should only have them to show possession or when the word is a contraction, like can&#8217;t or don&#8217;t. Plurals don&#8217;t get apostrophes. Let&#8217;s make a concerted effort not to misplace this bit of punctuation . . because understanding each other is important.<br \/>\nResources: <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1086832\/Apostrophe-catastrophe-The-rogue-apostrophe-spreading-like-measles-Its-time-fight-.html\">Apostrophe Catastrophe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Rhetoric_and_Composition\/Missing_or_misplaced_apostrophe\">Wikibooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s definitely time to start a proper word usage list. I just spotted the third statement about &#8220;peek interest&#8221; made by a college educated person. This is going to be a running list. I&#8217;ll add to it when I spot anything new that belongs here. If you have a suggestion, put in the Talkback section &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-correct-word-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The correct word is . . .&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,31,492],"tags":[771,770,768,772,769],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-best-stuff","category-education","tag-error","tag-grammar","tag-misplaced-apostrophes","tag-misspell","tag-spelling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}