{"id":205,"date":"2014-07-31T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T03:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2017-03-04T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:57:30","slug":"the-difference-between-dependent-and-dependant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-dependent-and-dependant\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between dependent and dependant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>TLDR:<\/strong> <em>Dependant<\/em> is someone who relies on someone else. To be <em>dependent<\/em> on someone is the act of requiring support.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At a glance, you may think <em>dependant<\/em> is a typo. Behold! It is not. Well, not for most of us.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>dependent<\/em> and <em>dependant<\/em> are two different words in all forms of English outside the US, US English users prefer to spell the noun <em>dependant<\/em> with &#8216;-ent&#8217;. (Stop thinking about Treebeard.) As someone living outside the US, however, I will spell it with the &#8216;-ant&#8217; ending.<\/p>\n<p>dependant (noun)\u2014an individual who relies upon another, often financially or physically<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The bachelor enjoyed living his comfortable existence without the hassle of dependants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Children are the dependants of their parents until they leave home.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>dependent (adjective)\u2014relying on the aid or support of something<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>It&#8217;s sad how many people are dependent <strong>on<\/strong> drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The chicks are completely dependent <strong>upon<\/strong> their mother until they leave the nest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Patients are often dependent <strong>on<\/strong> their nurses for physical and emotional support.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So for all non-US English users, remember that the noun ends in &#8216;-ant&#8217; while the adjective and its derivatives (such as interdependent) use the &#8216;-ent&#8217; ending.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bur\u00e1rum!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I want to be either.<\/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\/205"}],"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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}