{"id":6881,"date":"2017-01-27T07:35:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2017-01-27T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T08:37:43","slug":"bigging-himself-up-bigly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/01\/27\/bigging-himself-up-bigly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigging himself up, bigly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm well known for my toleration and generosity of spirit, for my forbearance and my willingness to see the best in everybody. \u00a0I can even believe that there might be some good in the new president\u00a0\u2013 somewhere, secreted\u00a0away, and that something useful might emerge from his policies, maybe\u00a0by misadventure. \u00a0But when he said \"bigly\" as in 'We're gonna do this bigly', enough, I thought. \u00a0 Then\u00a0his explainers-away tried to say that he actually said, \"big league\" which made it worse as only alternative facts can.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I mused, it is odd that <em>hugely<\/em> is ok, as are\u00a0<em>enormously<\/em> and\u00a0<em>largely<\/em>, so why not <em>bigly<\/em>, pausing only to note that largely has little to do with size. \u00a0And so\u00a0I went to the dictionaries and found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finedictionary.com\/Bigly.html\"><em><strong>Bigly<\/strong><\/em><\/a>: In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. \u00a0\"He brawleth bigly .\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster-dictionary.org\/definition\/Bigly\">Websters<\/a> (1913) says that this comes from Thomas More. \u00a0Apt really. \u00a0The president\u00a0spake more than he knew ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm well known for my toleration and generosity of spirit, for my forbearance and my willingness to see the best in everybody. \u00a0I can even believe that there might be some good in the new president\u00a0\u2013 somewhere, secreted\u00a0away, and that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}