{"id":58,"date":"2002-09-18T01:25:51-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-18T09:25:51+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2002-09-18T01:25:51-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-18T09:25:51+00:00","slug":"im-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/09\/18\/im-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m&nbsp;listening&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>It&#8217;s funny how many posts (on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>, Usenet <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/\">newsgroups<\/a>, etc.) that criticize English usage in other messages consistently misspell and misuse the word <q>grammar<\/q>.  <q>Grammer<\/q> is the surname of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.org\/Name?Grammer,+Kelsey\">actor<\/a> who plays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.org\/Title?0106004\">Frasier Crane<\/a> on television; <q>grammar<\/q> is <q>a set of rules that reflect how a language is actually used<\/q> (Richard Lederer, <cite>Conan the Grammarian<\/cite>).<\/p>\n\n<p>If citing Lederer doesn&#8217;t satisfy, the OED is a more well-recognized authoritative source:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;many questions of <q>correctness<\/q> in language were\nrecognized as outside the province of grammar: e.g. the use of a word in a\nwrong sense, or a bad pronunciation or spelling, would not have been called a\ngrammatical mistake. At the same time, it was and is customary, on grounds of\nconvenience, for books professedly treating of grammar to include more or less\ninformation on points not strictly belonging to the subject.<\/p><\/blockquote><p class=\"source\">The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition<\/p>\n\n<p>Grammar\/grammer goes in my list of language peeves, right after slash\/backslash (hint: slash is used in fractions and URLs, and backslash is near backspace on most QWERTY keyboards).<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s funny how many posts (on Slashdot, Usenet newsgroups, etc.) that criticize English usage in other messages consistently misspell and misuse the word grammar. Grammer is the surname of the actor who plays Frasier Crane on television; grammar is a set of rules that reflect how a language is actually used (Richard Lederer, Conan the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}