{"id":2692,"date":"2025-05-19T11:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:48:46","slug":"bryan-garners-tip-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/bryan-garners-tip-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Garner&#8217;s &#8220;Tip of the Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawprose.org\/join-our-email-lists\/\">You really must subscribe<\/a>. Today&#8217;s was delightfully humbling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>racket; racquet.<\/strong>\u00a0For the implement used in net games,\u00a0<em>racket<\/em>\u00a0is standard in American English and British English alike. The variant\u00a0<em>racquet<\/em>\u00a0appears in some proper names (e.g., the Palm Springs Racquet Club) seemingly because the \u201cfancy\u201d spelling looks more high-toned. But\u00a0<em>racquetball<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>racketball<\/em>\u00a0are two different sports.\u00a0<em>Racquetball<\/em>\u00a0is a U.S. sport that is played on an indoor or outdoor court with short paddles and a hollow rubber ball.\u00a0<em>Racketball<\/em>\u00a0is a form of squash played mostly in England. The racket, ball, court, and scoring all differ from American\u00a0<em>racquetball<\/em>. In 2016, the World Squash Federation rebranded\u00a0<em>racketball<\/em>\u00a0as \u201cSquash 57.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You really must subscribe. Today&#8217;s was delightfully humbling: racket; racquet.\u00a0For the implement used in net games,\u00a0racket\u00a0is standard in American English and British English alike. The variant\u00a0racquet\u00a0appears in some proper names (e.g., the Palm Springs Racquet Club) seemingly because the \u201cfancy\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/bryan-garners-tip-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77,83,89],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-playfulness","tag-publishing","tag-resources-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}