{"id":11348,"date":"2010-09-03T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T10:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/03\/purveyorproprietor\/"},"modified":"2010-09-03T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T10:37:29","slug":"purveyorproprietor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/03\/purveyorproprietor\/","title":{"rendered":"Purveyor\/Proprietor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Bill O&#39;Reilly of the Fox News <em>O&#39;Reilly Factor<\/em> has been introducing Dick Morris as the &quot;purveyor&quot; of <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickmorris.com\/blog\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">dickmorris.com.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; That should offend your linguistic sensibilities &#8212; assuming you have some.&#0160;&#0160;The word he wants is &#39;proprietor.&#39;&#0160; In plain Anglo-Saxon, a proprietor is an owner.&#0160; A purveyor is someone who supplies provisions such as food.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Suppose you own the Glass Crutch bar and grill.&#0160; Is it that eating and drinking establishment that you provide to the public for consumption?&#0160; No, you provide food and drink at that place.&#0160; So you are the proprietor of the Glass Crutch, not its purveyor.&#0160; It is the same with Dick Morris.&#0160; He doesn&#39;t purvey his site; his site is the place where he purveys his political commentary.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Whether you have the audience of Bill O. or of Bill V. you have the responsibility to honor and protect the English language, our <em>alma mater <\/em>(nourishing mother), the enabler, if not the source, &#0160;of our thoughts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Companion post:&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2008\/11\/what-is-language-tool-enabler-dominatrix.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">What is Language? Tool, Enabler, Dominatrix?<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill O&#39;Reilly of the Fox News O&#39;Reilly Factor has been introducing Dick Morris as the &quot;purveyor&quot; of dickmorris.com.&#0160; That should offend your linguistic sensibilities &#8212; assuming you have some.&#0160;&#0160;The word he wants is &#39;proprietor.&#39;&#0160; In plain Anglo-Saxon, a proprietor is an owner.&#0160; A purveyor is someone who supplies provisions such as food.&#0160; Suppose you own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/03\/purveyorproprietor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purveyor\/Proprietor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}