{"id":41815,"date":"2018-02-05T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41815"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:48:48","slug":"a-brief-history-of-plural-word-s-john-mcwhorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/05\/a-brief-history-of-plural-word-s-john-mcwhorter\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of plural word&#8230;s &#8211; John McWhorter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gwJHuEa9Jc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>TED-Ed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 22 Jul 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>View full lesson here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/a-brief-history-of-plural-word-s-john-mcwhorter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/a-brief-history-of-plural-word-s-john-mcwhorter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn&#8217;t always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German &mdash; and books, names and eggs were <em>beek<\/em>, <em>namen<\/em> and <em>eggru<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Lesson by John McWhorter, animation by Lippy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED-Ed Published on 22 Jul 2013 View full lesson here: https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/a-brief-history-of-plural-word-s-john-mcwhorter All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn&#8217;t always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German &mdash; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,7],"tags":[400,961],"class_list":["post-41815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-history","tag-language","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aSr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41816,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41815\/revisions\/41816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}