{"id":21,"date":"2003-02-06T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2003-02-06T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-06T16:11:00","slug":"21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/21\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dictionary of Plain Language<\/h3>\n<p>Found this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcommunicators.com\/\" title=\"takes you to the home page of techcommunicators.com\">techcommunicators.com<\/a>. <b>To check out the dictionary <\/b>go straight to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcommunicators.com\/diction.html\" title=\"takes you to the dictionary of plain language on techcommunicators.com\">http:\/\/www.techcommunicators.com\/diction.html<\/a> Hope you find it useful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<map name=\"google_ad_map_061219083745030206161100\">\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/061219083745030206161100?pos=0\" coords=\"1,2,367,28\"\/>\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg\" coords=\"384,10,453,23\"\/><\/map>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" usemap=\"#google_ad_map_061219083745030206161100\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1259014363012020&amp;channel=9138153052&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=061219083745030206161100&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftw-india.blogspot.com%2F2003%2F02%2Fdictionary-of-plain-language-found.html\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionary of Plain Language Found this on techcommunicators.com. 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