{"id":3796,"date":"2011-11-05T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2011-11-05T19:22:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:22:04","slug":"a-wee-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"A Wee Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have been quiet here for awhile, as I’ve been trying to make my final changes to the Ph.D. thesis (or, for those of you in the U.S., “dissertation”). Things are pretty much to the point of being ready to submit, with only a few more paragraphs to add, and the spell-checking having consumed the last several hours. Yes: several hours of spell-checking. Why, you might ask?<\/p>\n

I’m required to write using U.K. spelling. The vast majority of my literature comes from authors writing using U.S. spelling. Thus, running a spell-check isn’t a trivial task. For example, these words jump out as being problems, and I need to see whether the word is used in a quotation or if I’m using it in my own writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
judgement<\/td>\njudgment<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nbehavior<\/td>\nbehaviour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
artefacts<\/td>\nartifacts<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nfavour<\/td>\nfavor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
organise<\/td>\norganize<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ngrey<\/td>\ngray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
candour<\/td>\ncandor<\/td>\n    <\/td>\ncentre<\/td>\ncenter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
organisation<\/td>\norganization<\/td>\n    <\/td>\nrigour<\/td>\nrigor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
socialise, computerise, anthropomorphise, conceptualise, polarise, optimise, paralyse… anything ordinarily spelled -ize<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Those are just the ones I kept track of, before I gave it up as a bad idea to try to detail all of the words which are spelled (or, ya know, spelt<\/b>) differently.<\/p>\n

Once those last couple of paragraphs are done, though, I can begin to prepare for the viva, and we can start sending out the applications for teaching positions. We’ve still no idea where we’ll end up, but we’re casting the net fairly wide at this point.<\/p>\n

-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things have been quiet here for awhile, as I’ve been trying to make my final changes to the Ph.D. thesis (or, for those of you in the U.S., “dissertation”). Things are pretty much to the point of being ready to submit, with only a few more paragraphs to add, and the spell-checking having consumed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}