{"id":1464,"date":"2011-02-28T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2011-02-10T23:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T12:39:35","slug":"a-maternal-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/02\/a-maternal-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"A maternal berth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounding exactly the same, birth and berth are extremely different words and misusing them would lead to confusion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">birth: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">a beginning, especially relating to the beginning of life when a mammal leaves its Mother&#8217;s body<br \/>\n<em>Parents see their baby&#8217;s birth as a turning point in their lives.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">berth: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">a space for resting or sleeping, particularly relating to ships and trains. It can refer to a bed\/bunk on a ship or train\u00a0or a mooring place for a ship in a marina<br \/>\n<em>The crew untied the ship from its berth on time for the departure.<br \/>\nMary climbed into the top berth as the train sped past another village.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My tip for rememebring which spelling to use: a <strong>be<\/strong>rth is a <strong>be<\/strong>d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounding exactly the same, birth and berth are extremely different words and misusing them would lead to confusion&#8230; birth: a beginning, especially relating to the beginning of life when a mammal leaves its Mother&#8217;s body Parents see their baby&#8217;s birth as a turning point in their lives. berth: a space for resting or sleeping, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[1016,1165,1164,297,1166],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-baby","tag-berth","tag-birth","tag-definition","tag-sleep"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}