{"id":485,"date":"2011-09-11T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=485"},"modified":"2011-09-22T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T15:47:40","slug":"formidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Formidable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you to Malcolm Rigg for pointing out that ‘my mother-in-law is formidable’\u00a0 becomes a compliment in French. Put the stress on the third syllable, and the French ‘formidable’\u00a0instantly transforms your mother-in-law\u00a0to: amazing, fantastic, tremendous.<\/p>\n

If Malcom Rigg sends me his postal address I shall get a copy of “False Friends: Faux Amis: Book Two” (hot off the press) off to him free, gratis and for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you to Malcolm Rigg for pointing out that ‘my mother-in-law is formidable’\u00a0 becomes a compliment in French. Put the stress on the third syllable, and the French ‘formidable’\u00a0instantly transforms your mother-in-law\u00a0to: amazing, fantastic, tremendous. If Malcom Rigg sends me … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}