{"id":18504,"date":"2024-04-16T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18504"},"modified":"2024-03-27T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:35:26","slug":"words-seldom-seen-elide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=18504","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Elide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verb: To suppress or alter a sound, a word or other fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example one: “in the word “ain’t” we elide the r and the o sounds from are not.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example two: “while singing the praise of government action the press elided the consequence of the new dependency.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo is again from Palau in 2015. A large friendly fish the name of which I have forgotten. In this description I elided the fact that the fish was begging to be fed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elide Verb: To suppress or alter a sound, a word or other fact. Example one: “in the word “ain’t” we elide the r and the o sounds from are not.” Example two: “while singing the praise of government action the press elided the consequence of the new dependency.” The photo is again from Palau in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,408],"tags":[1347,109,1345,51,409],"class_list":["post-18504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-codger-divers","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-elide","tag-fish","tag-palau","tag-scuba","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AE5A6B50-96B6-4F88-8D12-C5D38EB9D1BF_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1086%2C724&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4Os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18506,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504\/revisions\/18506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}