{"id":3165,"date":"2011-09-28T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/top-10-decimations-of-the-english-language\/"},"modified":"2011-10-03T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T17:45:36","slug":"top-10-decimations-of-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/28\/top-10-decimations-of-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Decimations Of The English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cRefute\u201d means to \u201cdisprove with evidence\u201d and yet it\u2019s commonly used, even by professional writers, to mean \u201crebut\u201d which carries a similar meaning but isn\u2019t quite so strong, as it can also mean \u201cargue against.\u201d The example\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cSimon Cowell refutes \u2018scandalous\u2019 claims he helped billionaire hide assets from wife he was divorcing\u201d) is from a recent Daily Mail article. For those outside the UK, the Daily Mail is a newspaper which regularly rages against falling educational standards. A special mention to Sarah Palin who invented a new word \u201crefudiate\u201d; the usage suggests she meant repudiate.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading about the literally chronic enormity of these bastardizations of the language<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LISTVERSE 10 Refute \u201cRefute\u201d means to \u201cdisprove with evidence\u201d and yet it\u2019s commonly used, even by professional writers, to mean \u201crebut\u201d which carries a similar meaning but isn\u2019t quite so strong, as it can also mean \u201cargue against.\u201d The example\u00a0here\u00a0(\u201cSimon Cowell refutes \u2018scandalous\u2019 claims he helped billionaire hide assets from wife he was divorcing\u201d) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}