{"id":505,"date":"2011-01-30T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/?p=505"},"modified":"2011-01-30T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:37:11","slug":"the-strange-case-of-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-strange-case-of-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-strange-case-of-the-english-language\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-strange-case-of-the-english-language\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The vagaries of the English Language<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/adultery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-506\" title=\"adultery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/adultery-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Do infants enjoy <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">infancy <\/span><\/em>as much as adults enjoy <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">adultery<\/span><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>If a pig loses its voice, does it become <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">disgruntled<\/span><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Why is the person who invests your money called a <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">broker<\/span><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Why do <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>overlook<\/em> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>oversee<\/em> <\/span>mean opposites?<\/p>\n<p>If lawyers are <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>disbarred <\/em><\/span>and clergymen <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>defrocked<\/em><\/span>, doesn\u2019t it follow that electricians should\u00a0 be\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>delighted<\/em><\/span>, musicians <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>denoted <\/em><\/span>and dry cleaners <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">depressed<\/span><\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Language is renowned for its vagaries.   Here are some fun ones &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}