{"id":510,"date":"2008-08-19T21:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=510"},"modified":"2008-08-19T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T01:50:50","slug":"geoff-vs-the-language-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Geoff and the Language Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website for BBC Radio 4's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/wordofmouth.shtml\"><em>Word of Mouth<\/em><\/a> describes today's program this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Peggy Reynolds is sitting in for Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, the programme about language and the way we use it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This week, Peggy investigates the world of language guardians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Once, they wrote to the letters pages of newspapers. Now they have the internet. Peggy looks at the battles raging on the language blogs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of  the guests on the program was Geoff Pullum.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, at least, the audio is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/console\/b00d0hw7\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/console\/b00d0hw7<\/a>. Geoff's segment starts around 3:10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website for BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth describes today's program this way: Peggy Reynolds is sitting in for Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, the programme about language and the way we use it. This week, Peggy investigates the world of language guardians. Once, they wrote to the letters pages of newspapers. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}