{"id":3691,"date":"2009-05-17T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/17\/grammar-nerd-poll\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:17:05","slug":"grammar-nerd-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/17\/grammar-nerd-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Nerd Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with the substance of Steve Benen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_05\/018214.php\">post about conservative preparations for judicial confirmation hearings<\/a>, but the quote he used from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/17conserve.html?_r=1&#038;hp\"><cite>New York Times<\/cite> article<\/a> is the proximate cause for this Grammar Nerd Poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is the plural of &#8220;memorandum&#8221;?<br \/>\nA) &#8220;Memorandums&#8221;<br \/>\nB) &#8220;Memoranda&#8221;<br \/>\nC) &#8220;More than one memorandum&#8221;<br \/>\nD) Some other option I will explain in the comments<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leave your answer in the comments. Bonus nerd points for spotting the egregious grammar error in the text of the post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t know what the egregious grammar error in the post is, but by the Iron Laws of the Internet, I&#8217;m sure there must be one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with the substance of Steve Benen&#8217;s post about conservative preparations for judicial confirmation hearings, but the quote he used from a New York Times article is the proximate cause for this Grammar Nerd Poll: What is the plural of &#8220;memorandum&#8221;? A) &#8220;Memorandums&#8221; B) &#8220;Memoranda&#8221; C) &#8220;More than one memorandum&#8221; D)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/17\/grammar-nerd-poll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grammar Nerd Poll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}