{"id":107,"date":"2014-03-30T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T00:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T00:40:16","slug":"the-difference-between-tenant-and-tenet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-tenant-and-tenet\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between tenant and tenet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d be surprised how often the word <em>tenant<\/em> is confused with <em>tenet<\/em>, especially in spoken English.<\/p>\n<p>tenant (noun)\u2014a person who rents and occupies a piece of land or property<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\u2018I got a new tenant for the flat today. He seems nice.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a book by Anne Bront\u00eb.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>tenant (verb)\u2014to occupy land or property<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The second bedroom was tenanted out to George\u2019s friend from college.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>tenet (noun)\u2014a principle or rule of belief<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The Five Tenets must be obeyed or risk the wrath of Sithis!<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help myself with that last one! Remember, <em>tenant<\/em> refers to people renting out properties, not systems of belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a glance, they look similar but that&#8217;s where their similarities stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}