{"id":5451,"date":"2012-01-17T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:39:41","slug":"a-troublesome-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5451","title":{"rendered":"A Troublesome People"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Dutch would be clear English if it were properly spelt.  For example, <q>learn-master<\/q> would be seen at once to be <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">teacher<\/span>; but they will spell it <q>leermeester<\/q>.  <q>Of these<\/q> they write as <q>van deze<\/q>; <q>window<\/q> they make <q>weduwe<\/q>.  All this is plain to me, who never saw a Dutch dictionary in my life; but many of their misspellings are quite unconquerable.<\/blockquote> <div style=\"padding-left: 50% ;\">Augustus de Morgan<br \/><cite>A Budget of Paradoxes<\/cite>, volume I<br \/><q>Duchesne and a Disquisition on Etymology<\/q><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch would be clear English if it were properly spelt. For example, learn-master would be seen at once to be teacher; but they will spell it leermeester. Of these they write as van deze; window they make weduwe. All this is plain to me, who never saw a Dutch dictionary in my life; but many [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,4],"tags":[1102,1101,1105,287,1103,1104],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-public","tag-augustus-de-morgan","tag-de-morgan","tag-dutch","tag-english","tag-nederlands","tag-orthography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}