{"id":90,"date":"2014-10-03T20:14:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T09:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/45.120.150.61\/english.october.com.au\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-10-03T20:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T09:18:51","slug":"more-bad-english-over-at-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"More bad english over at Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel Seven is beginning to appear in this list far too often for my liking. I&#8217;ve barely resisted the urge to scream at some of the very basic spelling errors that crop up in their news supers. But tonight&#8217;s news including a reporter piece to camera that included one of my pet hate turns \u00a0of phrase when she explained that smell:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; was that big of an indicator of health &#8230;&#8221; [or similar]<\/p>\n<p>Argh! Bad reporter! Bad english. I hear this often enough among uneducated speakers, but I never thought I&#8217;d hear it from a seasoned journalist that I assume has a university degree. Here&#8217;s what it should be:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; was that big an indicator of health &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One word. One superfluous little word.<\/p>\n<p>I keep offering my linguistic services to Seven, but so far they haven&#8217;t taken me up on it. The offer is still open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel Seven is beginning to appear in this list far too often for my liking. I&#8217;ve barely resisted the urge to scream at some of the very basic spelling errors that crop up in their news supers. But tonight&#8217;s news including a reporter piece to camera that included one of my pet hate turns \u00a0of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}