{"id":426,"date":"2007-07-16T16:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/07\/16\/a-ginormous-mistake\/"},"modified":"2007-07-16T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:26:19","slug":"a-ginormous-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-ginormous-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ginormous Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"ginormous-book.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ginormous-book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image427\" height=\"67\" alt=\"ginormous-book.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ginormous-book.jpg?fit=640%2C67\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that Merriam-Webster has officially proclaimed that \u2018ginormous\u2019 is a word, I have even less regard for their dictionary.&nbsp;\u00a0 &#8216;Ginormous&#8217; is a horrible debacle as far as my ears are concerned. It also makes me think of \u2018vagina,\u2019 but I know I am overly sensitive to the V word. I don\u2019t even like girls named Regina.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what next, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reference.com\/browse\/wiki\/Indefinite_and_fictitious_large_numbers\" target=\"_blank\">kajillion<\/a>?\u2019 That one bothers me as well, but \u2018eleventy billion\u2019 is okay, because it\u2019s so cute.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Metcalf, a professor of English at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and the executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, doesn\u2019t like \u2018ginormous.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2007\/07\/10\/new_dictionary_includes_ginormous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s<\/a> what he said about it:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A new word that stands out and is ostentatious is going to sink like a lead balloon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It might enjoy a fringe existence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t that an awful sentence?!&nbsp;\u00a0 Why is this guy on the board of the American Dialect Society? No wonder everything is screwed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Merriam-Webster has officially proclaimed that \u2018ginormous\u2019 is a word, I have even less regard for their dictionary.&nbsp;\u00a0 &#8216;Ginormous&#8217; is a horrible debacle as far as my ears are concerned. It also makes me think of \u2018vagina,\u2019 but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-ginormous-mistake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-6S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}