{"id":1928,"date":"2003-11-08T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/09\/the-purity-of-the-english-language\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:35:04","slug":"the-purity-of-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/08\/the-purity-of-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purity of the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don&#8217;t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistlist.org\/issues\/13\/13-499.html\" title=\"James D. Nicoll quote - mystery solved\">James D. Nicoll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don&#8217;t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}