{"id":575,"date":"2014-01-23T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2014-02-19T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:42:47","slug":"macquarie-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/01\/macquarie-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Dictionary &#8211; adjective  \/do\u028ap\/ (say dohp) 9. (Colloquial) excellent: a dope book; so dope!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words are the tits, really. Australian English especially so, as the folks at Macquarie Dictionary will tell you. And now their editor Susan Butler&#8217;s got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macquariedictionary.com.au\/news\/home\/from\/editor\/\">blog<\/a>, and it is awesome. Ever wanted to know the difference between a taboo and a derogatory word? Suze has you covered, with colourful examples. Wanna know the history of Aus usage of\u00a0<em>youse<\/em>? Ms Butler has the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but you also get\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macquariedictionary.com.au\/resources\/view\/word\/of\/the\/year\/\">to vote for the Word of the Year 2013<\/a>, which I am disproportionately excited about. The &#8216;Colloquial&#8217; category is amazeballs (\u2013<em>adjective<\/em>\u00a0<strong>2.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0very astonishing:\u00a0<em>an amazeballs day out<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t get better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words are the tits, really. Australian English especially so, as the folks at Macquarie Dictionary will tell you. And now their editor Susan Butler&#8217;s got a blog, and it is awesome. Ever wanted to know the difference between a taboo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/01\/macquarie-dictionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[129,127,125,126,128],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun","tag-amazeballs","tag-blog","tag-macquarie-dictionary","tag-susan-butler","tag-word-of-the-year-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-9h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}