{"id":324,"date":"2007-04-17T06:27:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/a-new-verb"},"modified":"2007-04-17T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T14:27:34","slug":"a-new-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"A New Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;Deaning&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday during a presentation to the Parent Council at Swarthmore the new Dean of Students used the term &#8220;deaning.&#8221;\u00a0 It was the first time I had heard the verb form of dean.\u00a0 I was delighted.\u00a0 New words that fill needs are always welcome in the english language.\u00a0 In fact they should be celebrated.\u00a0 Congratulations to Dean Jim Larimore for giving me and I think the world this new word. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/\">Swarthmore<\/a> is a great school and is famous for the linguists on its faculty and now in the deans office.<br \/>\nLearning the verb deaning was one of the high points of a wonderful week on in the South East.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/462856295\/P4140103JPG.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P4140103.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/189\/462856295_3d0f3d5557_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This is a picture of one of the flowering trees at Swarthmore this spring.\u00a0 It was taken during the hour of sunshine we had on Saturday afternoon before the deluge started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Deaning&#8221; On Saturday during a presentation to the Parent Council at Swarthmore the new Dean of Students used the term &#8220;deaning.&#8221;\u00a0 It was the first time I had heard the verb form of dean.\u00a0 I was delighted.\u00a0 New words that fill needs are always welcome in the english language.\u00a0 In fact they should be celebrated.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}