{"id":1410,"date":"2012-05-27T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2012-05-27T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T16:29:03","slug":"pourquoi-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Pourquoi ? Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is a matin\u00e9e in the afternoon when ‘le matin’ means ‘morning’?<\/p>\n

Why is the French for a fortnight ‘une quinzaine’ which is fifteen days? e.g. <<quinzaine des soldes>> is a ‘two-week sale’.<\/p>\n

Why is the French for a week ‘une huitaine’ which is eight days? I can just\u00a0understand this one in the expression: ‘le cas a \u00e9t\u00e9 remis \u00e0 huitaine’ : ‘the case has been deferred to a week tomorrow’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is a matin\u00e9e in the afternoon when ‘le matin’ means ‘morning’? Why is the French for a fortnight ‘une quinzaine’ which is fifteen days? e.g. <<quinzaine des soldes>> is a ‘two-week sale’. Why is the French for a week … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-mK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}