{"id":1383,"date":"2013-06-29T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2013-06-29T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:09:28","slug":"language-change-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Language Change (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly seeing the word &#8220;staffs&#8221; as the plural of &#8220;staff&#8221;; example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/staffs.tiff\"><img src=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/staffs.tiff\" alt=\"Academic staffs are requested to robe in the Common Room, where administrative staff will be in attendance to assist you.  All staff members should be at the Common Room no later than the times stated on the list.\" title=\"staffs\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weirdly (or, whilst we&#8217;re on the topic of language change, perhaps that should be &#8220;wierdly&#8221;) the word is used &#8220;correctly&#8221; later in the same sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly seeing the word &#8220;staffs&#8221; as the plural of &#8220;staff&#8221;; example: Weirdly (or, whilst we&#8217;re on the topic of language change, perhaps that should be &#8220;wierdly&#8221;) the word is used &#8220;correctly&#8221; later in the same sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}