{"id":17923,"date":"2012-11-13T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17923"},"modified":"2012-11-13T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:12:07","slug":"omnishambles-is-the-oxford-dictionarys-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/omnishambles-is-the-oxford-dictionarys-word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnishambles is the Oxford Dictionary\u2019s word of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnewsnetwork.ca\/sunnews\/world\/archives\/2012\/11\/20121113-133959.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take a word meaning &#8220;all&#8221; and add it to a word meaning &#8220;mess&#8221; and you have Britain&#8217;s word of the year, as chosen by the Oxford University Press: omnishambles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a noun, informal, that refers to &#8220;a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations,&#8221; according to the lexicographers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a word with which Archbishop Justin Welby should familiarise himself as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Take a word meaning &#8220;all&#8221; and add it to a word meaning &#8220;mess&#8221; and you have Britain&#8217;s word of the year, as chosen by the Oxford University Press: omnishambles. It&#8217;s a noun, informal, that refers to &#8220;a situation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/omnishambles-is-the-oxford-dictionarys-word-of-the-year\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[1179,1190,1641],"class_list":["post-17923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-omnishambles","tag-oxford-english-dictionary","tag-word-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}