I have received emails\/letters that include\u00a0“thanks for your patients” where I’m sure the writer didn’t have\u00a0 the slightest idea that they really meant “thanks for your patience”. Do you know the difference?<\/p>\n
patience: bearing or enduring difficult or trying circumstances, usually in a calm and accepting manner patients: people receiving the services of medical practitioners – often ill or injured people but not always Given that patients refers to a group of people, it is no surprise that the word ends in s, the common plural ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have received emails\/letters that include\u00a0“thanks for your patients” where I’m sure the writer didn’t have\u00a0 the slightest idea that they really meant “thanks for your patience”. Do you know the difference? patience: bearing or enduring difficult or trying circumstances, usually in a calm and accepting manner The audience’s patience was rewarded with a wonderful […]<\/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":[470,469],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-patience","tag-patients"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe audience’s patience was rewarded with a wonderful concert.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe doctor had a queue of patients waiting to see her during the epidemic.<\/em><\/p>\n