{"id":215,"date":"2013-09-05T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-09-05T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T13:49:51","slug":"come-hell-or-high-water-dick-swiveller-as-it-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Come hell or high water, Dick Swiveller, as it were"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lovely piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by the linguist Geoffrey Pullum, on the strange phrase &#8220;&#8216;Twas ever thus&#8221;. It survives in the language as an idiom, even though the grammar used in it is completely archaic. You can&#8217;t, as Pullum points out, use &#8220;ever&#8221; in affirmative clauses: we&#8217;d normally say &#8220;always&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>via News \u00bb Language http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/tomchiversscience\/100234455\/come-hell-or-high-water-dick-swiveller-as-it-were\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lovely piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by the linguist Geoffrey Pullum, on the strange phrase &#8220;&#8216;Twas ever thus&#8221;. It survives in the language as an idiom, even though the grammar used in it is completely archaic. You can&#8217;t, as Pullum points out, use &#8220;ever&#8221; in affirmative clauses: we&#8217;d normally say &#8220;always&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[67],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}