{"id":328,"date":"2010-02-05T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:51:55","slug":"pled-v-pleaded-enormity-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/pled-v-pleaded-enormity-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleaded<\/em> vs. Pled<\/em> and Enormity<\/em> Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I will answer a couple of questions I received from radio listeners when I was a guest.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/strong> Should you say “pleaded guilty” or “pled guilty”? Answer: <\/strong>Either one is considered correct.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/strong> Does “enormity” mean “something monstrous” or “something huge”? Answer:<\/strong> In formal writing, enormity<\/em> has nothing to do with something’s size. The word is frequently misused: the “enormity” of football linemen, or the “enormity” of the task. For that, we have such words as immensity, vastness, hugeness, enormousness<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Enormity<\/em> is an ethical, judgmental word meaning “great wickedness,” “a hideous crime.” The enormity of Jonestown<\/em> doesn’t mean Jonestown was a huge place, but rather, the site of a hugely outrageous tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I will answer a couple of questions I received from radio listeners when I was a guest. Question: Should you say “pleaded guilty” or “pled guilty”? Answer: Either one is considered correct. Question: Does “enormity” mean “something monstrous” or “something huge”? Answer: In formal writing, enormity has nothing to do with something’s size. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}