{"id":3948,"date":"2018-10-01T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:16:23","slug":"is-the-s-or-c-silent-in-scent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/01\/is-the-s-or-c-silent-in-scent\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the &#8220;S&#8221; or &#8220;C&#8221; silent in Scent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3930\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100118-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3930\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100118-4-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Is the &quot;S&quot; or &quot;C&quot; silent in Scent? [Answer: Latin scholars would say it's the &quot;C&quot;!\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100118-4-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100118-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100118-4-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100118-4.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is the &#8220;S&#8221; or &#8220;C&#8221; silent in Scent? [Response: Latin scholars would say it&#8217;s the &#8220;C&#8221;! &lt;3 Latin Scholar]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Wall is inclined to agree with Latin Scholar. It comes from Latin&#8217;s sentire by way of French&#8217;s sentir, and the &#8220;c&#8221; appears to have snuck in later: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-scent\">bit.ly\/bc-scent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall is inclined to agree with Latin Scholar. It comes from Latin&#8217;s sentire by way of French&#8217;s sentir, and the &#8220;c&#8221; appears to have snuck in later: bit.ly\/bc-scent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}