{"id":26,"date":"2004-10-29T19:25:34","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-11-01T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T06:27:43","slug":"lead-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/lead-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"lead the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Linguistic <a href=\"http:\/\/m-w.com\/dictionary\/nitpicking\">nit-picking <\/a>on a Friday evening]<\/p>\n<p>Stumbled across the word <em>bakkie<\/em> in this article:<br \/>\nTo celebrate 35 years of the Toyota Hilux bakkie on the African market including Malawi, Toyota is also displaying the Toyota Hilux Legend35 double cab with chrome bull-bars and anti-roll bars.<\/p>\n<p>In Malawi, the term <em>pick-up<\/em> is more commonly used to refer to lightweight trucks. Bakkie is very  South African. I guess, the reporter just copied the press release \/ marketing collateral.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Linguistic nit-picking on a Friday evening] Stumbled across the word bakkie in this article: To celebrate 35 years of the Toyota Hilux bakkie on the African market including Malawi, Toyota is also displaying the Toyota Hilux Legend35 double cab with chrome bull-bars and anti-roll bars. In Malawi, the term pick-up is more commonly used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-malawian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}