{"id":23976,"date":"2018-12-11T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23976"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:33:03","slug":"grammar-nazi-strikes-christmas-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/grammar-nazi-strikes-christmas-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Nazi Strikes Christmas Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or a winter classic, I reckon.  &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; lyric sheets contain one or more grammatical errors.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXczrjAsOKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>is incorrect.  The singer is addressing the bells, so it needs a comma for the noun of direct address:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jingle, bells; Jingle, bells; Jingle all the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It could probably use a semicolon or two as well.<\/p>\n<p>The misunderstanding of the song has made people think there is a class of bells called &#8220;jingle bells,&#8221; but in the song, the class of bells is probably sleigh bells which jingle.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I have no idea of if any of the preceding is true.  I&#8217;m just sitting here trying to do my Grammar Virtue Signalling, wherein I expound upon some fine point of grammar that no one disputes because nobody knows grammar like I think I do and because nobody continues listening when I go into Grammar Nazi mode.  You yourself are probably not reading these words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or a winter classic, I reckon. &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; lyric sheets contain one or more grammatical errors. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way is incorrect. The singer is addressing the bells, so it needs a comma for the noun of direct address: Jingle, bells; Jingle, bells; Jingle all the way. It could probably use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23977,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23976\/revisions\/23977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}