{"id":1170,"date":"2007-10-20T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1170"},"modified":"2007-10-20T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:55:40","slug":"people-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1170","title":{"rendered":"People, please."},"content":{"rendered":"

“Discrete” means separate.
\n“Discreet” means quietly.<\/p>\n

If you do something discretely, you do it one at a time. Unconnectedly. Apart.
\nIf you do something discreetly, you do it unobtrusively. Circumspectly. Silently.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I have seen ANYONE use the proper spelling for “discreet” in the last 4 years. Did they stop teaching vocabulary and spelling in schools? I’ve even seen posters on a forum dedicated to college professors consistently spell it “discrete.” Oy.<\/p>\n

Along those lines, go to http:\/\/www.freerice.com\/<\/a> and see how high you can get. I got as high as 47, which probably means that I should quit reading the OED for fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Discrete” means separate. “Discreet” means quietly. If you do something discretely, you do it one at a time. Unconnectedly. Apart. If you do something discreetly, you do it unobtrusively. Circumspectly. Silently. I don’t think I have seen ANYONE use the proper spelling for “discreet” in the last 4 years. Did they stop teaching vocabulary and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}