{"id":2166,"date":"2011-07-18T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:22","slug":"iphone-vocabulary-fail-objects-of-antiquity-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/iphone-vocabulary-fail-objects-of-antiquity-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Vocabulary Fail: Objects of Antiquity Edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this post on <a href=\"\/\/damnyouautocorrect.com\/801\/third-times-the-charm\/\">Damn You, Auto Correct!<\/a>, someone is unintentionally referring to tiles used in mosaics:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/headdresses.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"headdresses\" width=\"320\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/headdresses.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/headdresses-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, a <A HREF=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tessera\">tessera<\/A> (plural: tesserae) is &#8220;an individual tile in a mosaic, usually formed in the shape of a cube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tesserae<\/em> is also the term for dice used in ancient Rome (makes sense &#8212; they&#8217;re cubes!) or for the layers of calcification on sharks&#8217; otherwise cartilaginous jaws and backbones (um, interesting).<\/p>\n<p>And now, <a href=\"\/\/damnyouautocorrect.com\/1355\/new-computer-parts\/\">this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/external-what.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"external-what\" width=\"320\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/external-what.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/external-what-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/garderobes\">garderobe<\/a> is a chamber for storing clothes, a wardrobe; or the clothes stored in such a chamber; or simply any private chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The word is Middle English from Old French and really does come from the roots for &#8220;guarding&#8221; your &#8220;robes.&#8221; (So does the word &#8220;wardrobe,&#8221; actually.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post on Damn You, Auto Correct!, someone is unintentionally referring to tiles used in mosaics: According to Wikipedia, a tessera (plural: tesserae) is &#8220;an individual tile in a mosaic, usually formed in the shape of a cube.&#8221; Tesserae is also the term for dice used in ancient Rome (makes sense &#8212; they&#8217;re cubes!) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}