{"id":223,"date":"2007-11-25T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-11-25T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:34:46","slug":"stevenson0s-delusional-published-in-the-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Stevenson0&#8217;s &#8220;Delusional&#8221; Published in The Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stevenson0&#8217;s &#8220;Delusional&#8221; was picked as one of the top invented words by Toronto Star writer John Sakamoto.  With hordes of <strong>dealusional<\/strong> Christmas shoppers heading south every weekend to do a little cross-border shopping in Buffalo, there is no doubt that the word <strong>dealusional<\/strong> has a particularly special ring in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Stevenson0&#8217;s full verbotocism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Definition:<\/strong><em> adj.<\/em>, To believe you&#8217;re saving money by buying things which are on sale even if you don&#8217;t really want or need them. <em>n.<\/em>, A person who believes they are saving their money whenever they buy something on sale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronunciation:<\/strong> dee\/loo\/shun\/al<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentence:<\/strong> Bart was completely dealusional and continued to stockpile worthless &#8216;bargains&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Etymology:<\/strong> deal + delusion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can ses the story in the The Toronto Star here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/article\/279584\">http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/article\/279584<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Stevenson0!<\/p>\n<p>Be creative,<\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevenson0&#8217;s &#8220;Delusional&#8221; was picked as one of the top invented words by Toronto Star writer John Sakamoto. With hordes of dealusional Christmas shoppers heading south every weekend to do a little cross-border shopping in Buffalo, there is no doubt that the word dealusional has a particularly special ring in Toronto. Here&#8217;s Stevenson0&#8217;s full verbotocism: Definition: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stevenson0&#8217;s &#8220;Delusional&#8221; Published in The Toronto Star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[92,26,93,25,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}