{"id":13239,"date":"2017-12-10T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13239"},"modified":"2017-12-10T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:29:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/10\/word-of-the-day-281\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Devil strip<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What counts as a salient linguistic feature can vary from case to case. A famous example involved a ransom note demanding that the money be left on the \u201cdevil strip\u201d. Asked by police to help out, linguist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogershuy.com\/\">Roger Shuy<\/a>\u00a0at Georgetown University in Washington DC happened to know that \u201cdevil strip\u201d was an extremely rare name for the grassy area between the pavement and the street \u2013 so rare, in fact, that only people in Akron, Ohio, use it. When Shuy asked the police if they had a suspect from Akron, their jaws dropped. They did, and the subject eventually confessed. [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631530-500-how-your-digital-style-gives-you-away-and-how-to-hide-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Write yourself invisible<\/em><\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0Michael Erard, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (25 November 2017, paywall)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devil strip: What counts as a salient linguistic feature can vary from case to case. A famous example involved a ransom note demanding that the money be left on the \u201cdevil strip\u201d. Asked by police to help out, linguist\u00a0Roger Shuy\u00a0at Georgetown University in Washington DC happened to know that \u201cdevil \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/10\/word-of-the-day-281\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13240,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239\/revisions\/13240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}