{"id":93,"date":"2014-03-17T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T23:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2016-11-21T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:20:14","slug":"the-difference-between-layout-and-lay-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-layout-and-lay-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between layout and lay out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often, two expressions which have the same letters in sequence get mixed up with each other, like layout and lay out. It is important to realise, though, that they mean two different things and are not interchangeable.<\/p>\n<p>layout (noun)\u2014the way in which parts of a whole are arranged<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The layout of this website is clean and stylish, thanks to my husband.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>\u2018I don\u2019t understand the layout of this campus one bit!\u2019 Sally complained.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>lay (verb)\u2014to place something down somewhere or to exhibit or display something<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\u2018Would you be so kind as to lay out the tools for this afternoon\u2019s surgery?\u2019 the doctor asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Before the game, Renee had to lay out all the shirts for the team.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see, the words mean two different things and adding or removing the space could cause a little confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An example of two expressions that possess the same letters in sequence but, in fact, mean two entirely different things.<\/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\/93"}],"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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}