{"id":424,"date":"2009-05-04T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T04:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-04-27T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T01:53:26","slug":"can-you-see-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/05\/can-you-see-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you see the site?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Cite:<\/span> to reference something and identify that source, especially in academic and legal papers<br \/>\n<em>The lawyer decided to cite John&#8217;s affidavit but not Mary&#8217;s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Site:<\/span> a location or area<br \/>\n<em>They had to clear the site before they could build on it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sight: <\/span>being able to see; what is seen<br \/>\n<em>She lost her sight after staring at the eclipse.<br \/>\n&#8220;What a sight!&#8221; said the hikers when they reached the mountain top.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word cite is used less often in general conversations and probably doesn&#8217;t suit most business documents. But I do see site and sight being misused.<\/p>\n<p>Think of <strong>sit<\/strong>e as a place where you can <strong>sit <\/strong>and it may help you remember which is which.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cite: to reference something and identify that source, especially in academic and legal papers The lawyer decided to cite John&#8217;s affidavit but not Mary&#8217;s. Site: a location or area They had to clear the site before they could build on it. Sight: being able to see; what is seen She lost her sight after staring [&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":[373,772,119,372,74],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-cite","tag-define","tag-meaning","tag-sight","tag-site"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}