{"id":509,"date":"2007-08-16T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2009-10-31T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:29:01","slug":"they-speak-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"They speak English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>As part of our effort to acclimatize ourselves to Scotland, we&#8217;ve subscribed to the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsrss.bbc.co.uk\/Frss\/Fnewsonline_uk_edition\/Fscotland\/Frss.xml\" target=_blank>news feed for Scotland<\/a>.  In the course of reading over this morning&#8217;s news, we read the sentence, &#8220;India lose their second wicket but are well set for victory after being set a revised 209 from 46 overs to beat Scotland.&#8221;  Umm &#8230; okay.  So, we clicked through to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/cricket\/counties\/scotland\/6949069.stm\" target=_blank>the story<\/a>, figuring we&#8217;d get to know a bit more about Cricket.  It was rough going, and we could tell there were English words in there, but the language is very sport-specific &#8230; until we happened across this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two balls later Blain beats him behind his legs to remove leg stump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>As a side note, the <a title=\"American: Apartment.\">flat<\/a> we were considering in Yokers has been <a title=\"American: Rented out.\">let<\/a> to someone else already, apparently within hours of our having had a decent conversation with the <a title=\"American: Property Manager \/ Realtor\">letting agent<\/a>.  So, the search continues.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>&#8211; D &#038; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our effort to acclimatize ourselves to Scotland, we&#8217;ve subscribed to the BBC&#8217;s news feed for Scotland. In the course of reading over this morning&#8217;s news, we read the sentence, &#8220;India lose their second wicket but are well set for victory after being set a revised 209 from 46 overs to beat Scotland.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}