{"id":419,"date":"2003-04-07T00:37:36","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2003-04-07T00:37:36","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T05:37:36","slug":"mellifluous-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"mellifluous flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.<br \/>\nSaving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an &#8216;s&#8217;) flows more mellifluously off the tongue, and Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/webexhibits.org\/daylightsaving\/b.html\">?excerpt from webexhibits.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I think my preference regarding things which flow <i><b>mellifluously<\/b><\/i> is for them to flow <i><u>onto<\/u><\/i>, not <i><u>off of<\/u><\/i> my tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time. Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}