{"id":738,"date":"2011-10-28T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=738"},"modified":"2011-10-28T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T10:33:11","slug":"un-american-tranquille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Un Am\u00e9rican tranquille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you spot a mistake in the above book title: <em>Un<\/em> Am\u00e9rican <em>tranquille ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I first borrowed this novel by Graham Greene (&#8216;A Quiet American&#8217;) from Portsmouth and Southsea library I had to go to my Collins-Robert dictionary to find out why a man had been described by what to me looked like a feminine adjective.<\/p>\n<p>In the dictionary I discovered there is no such French word as &#8216;tranquil&#8217; (I feel a joke trying to get out). All things (masculine or feminine) that are &#8216;quiet, peaceful, tranquil&#8217; are described as &#8216;tranquille&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So if, as I did,\u00a0you thought the publishers had made a mistake, it is in fact us who are in the wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you spot a mistake in the above book title: Un Am\u00e9rican tranquille ? When I first borrowed this novel by Graham Greene (&#8216;A Quiet American&#8217;) from Portsmouth and Southsea library I had to go to my Collins-Robert dictionary to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-bU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}