{"id":87932,"date":"2024-07-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87932"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:22:29","slug":"from-the-upcoming-revision-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87932","title":{"rendered":"From The Upcoming Revision To The Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Frumming <\/strong>(Verb):&nbsp; To compare two radically different things as if they were the same, by leaving out dispositively vital context.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump&#39;s fourth year in office was the most catastrophic final year of any president since Herbert Hoover&#39;s in 1932.<br><br>Joe Biden&#39;s fourth year in office is the most secure and prosperous since &#8211; when? Ronald Reagan&#39;s in 1984? Calvin Coolidge&#39;s in 1924?<\/p>&mdash; David Frum (@davidfrum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidfrum\/status\/1813918766339879022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Variations: <strong>Frummery:\u00a0 <\/strong>(Noun):\u00a0 &#8220;It was pure frummery to compare the records of the two presidents by dishonestly leaving out the pandemic&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Frumming (Verb):&nbsp; To compare two radically different things as if they were the same, by leaving out dispositively vital context.&nbsp; Example: Variations: Frummery:\u00a0 (Noun):\u00a0 &#8220;It was pure frummery to compare the records of the two presidents by dishonestly leaving out the pandemic&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,416,13,367,368,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-covid19","category-republicans","category-trump","category-trump-derangement","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87932\/revisions\/87936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}