{"id":683,"date":"2017-11-11T20:29:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obviouseditor.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2017-11-11T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:29:49","slug":"combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/683\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"highlighter\">Combat<\/span>, the noun, has the stress on the first syllable.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"prono\">Com&#8217;bat. <code><em>(n)<\/em><\/code><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"quo\">First, military training and exposure to <span class=\"highlighter\">combat<\/span> does not create the wacko battle-scarred soldier so often depicted by Hollywood, nor does it translate into criminal behavior. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/1091113\/veterans-and-crime-myth.html\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlighter\">Combat<\/span>, the verb, has stress on . . . either syllable. It is tempting to get all purist here and insist on stressing the second syllable in the verb, but both forms have been widely adopted.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"prono\">Com&#8217;bat. <code><em>(v)<\/em><\/code><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"prono\">Com-bat&#8217;. <code><em>(v)<\/em><\/code><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"quo\">A beefed-up corporate law enforcement unit, a new anti-fraud agency and more efficient criminal cases are among a suite of measures to be introduced to <span class=\"highlighter\">combat<\/span> white-collar crime. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/ireland\/new-moves-to-combat-white-collar-crime-462079.html\">Irish Examiner<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For <span class=\"highlighter\">combat<\/span>, the verb, the stress distinction may be heading for extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combat, the noun, has the stress on the first syllable. Com&#8217;bat. (n) First, military training and exposure to combat does not create the wacko battle-scarred soldier so often depicted by Hollywood, nor does it translate into criminal behavior. &#8211; Albuquerque Journal Combat, the verb, has stress on . . . either syllable. It is tempting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/683\/\" class=\"more-link\">See entire post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Combat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,5],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informalenglish.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}