{"items": [{"author": "Bill", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/213510395448112?comment_id=213548088777676", "anchor": "fb-213548088777676", "service": "fb", "text": "Re your footnote on mediums/media: I've read claims from some linguists (Pinker, for one) that words whose usage is extended from one part of speech to another (and sometimes merely extended) are normally regular in the new part of speech. This creates some interesting doublets where the \"same\" word is irregular with some meanings and regular with others. Medium/media (communications) and medium/mediums (sizes, psychics) seem to be examples of this, along with fly/flew/flown out (on wings) and fly/flied out (playing baseball).", "timestamp": "1351358704"}, {"author": "opted out", "source_link": "#", "anchor": "unknown", "service": "unknown", "text": "this user has requested that their comments not be shown here", "timestamp": "1351359840"}, {"author": "Yaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/213510395448112?comment_id=213636662102152", "anchor": "fb-213636662102152", "service": "fb", "text": "And roughly along Justin's line of thought - there's \"parent\" being used as the singular of \"parentheses\" - so often now that I wonder if it's become official...", "timestamp": "1351376846"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/213510395448112?comment_id=213873935411758", "anchor": "fb-213873935411758", "service": "fb", "text": "@Yaron: \"parent\", not \"paren\"?", "timestamp": "1351431211"}, {"author": "Yaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/213510395448112?comment_id=213891588743326", "anchor": "fb-213891588743326", "service": "fb", "text": "Actually, guess I've heard both.  But I think I've heard \"parent\" more often.", "timestamp": "1351434076"}]}