{"id":120,"date":"2002-09-10T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-10T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=120"},"modified":"2002-09-10T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-10T22:21:00","slug":"animal-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/120-animal-grammar","title":{"rendered":"Animal Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately, I don’t have the drawings to go along with this, but picture if you will a “Frank and Ernest” cartoon by Thaves:<\/p>\n

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  1. Beave.       Beaver.       Beavest.<\/b><\/li>\n
  2. Woodchuck.       Couldchuck.       Shouldchuck.<\/b><\/li>\n
  3. Bad-ger.       Worse-ger.       Worst-ger.<\/b><\/li>\n
  4. Lem.       Lemming.       Lemmed.<\/b><\/li>\n
  5. Flamingo.       Flamingoing.       Flamingone.<\/b><\/li>\n
  6. Ibis.       Ib-was.       Ib-will-be.<\/b><\/li>\n
  7. Ostrich.       Ostpoor.       Ost-middle class.<\/b><\/li>\n
  8. Pelican.       Pelican’t.       Peliwon’t.<\/b><\/li>\n
  9. Buffalo.       Buffa-lower.       Buffa-lowest.<\/b><\/li>\n
  10. Coatimondi.       Coati-Friday.       Coatimondi.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Hmmm. I guess it really doesn’t make all that much sense without the pictures?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Unfortunately, I don’t have the drawings to go along with this, but picture if you will a “Frank and Ernest” cartoon by Thaves: Beave.       Beaver.       Beavest. Woodchuck.       Couldchuck.       … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}