{"id":8982,"date":"2014-01-30T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2014-01-30T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:49:24","slug":"augers-v-augurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/01\/augers-v-augurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Augers v. Augurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span><\/p>\n

These are augers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a>

NRCS photo of soil augers. Click image for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is an augur.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Drawing<\/a>

A Roman augur. Image from Wikipedia. Click image for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The free dictionary defines augur as follows:<\/p>\n

n.<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>1.\u00a0<\/b>One of a group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and interpreting signs and omens.<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0<\/b>A seer or prophet; a soothsayer.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
v.<\/i>\u00a0au\u00b7gured<\/b>,\u00a0au\u00b7gur\u00b7ing<\/b>,\u00a0au\u00b7gurs<\/b><\/div>\n
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v.<\/i>tr.<\/i><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0<\/b>To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell. See Synonyms at\u00a0foretell<\/a>.<\/div>\n
2.\u00a0<\/b>To serve as an omen of; betoken:\u00a0trends that augur change in society.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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v.<\/i>intr.<\/i><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0<\/b>To make predictions from signs or omens.<\/div>\n
2.\u00a0<\/b>To be a sign or omen:\u00a0A smooth dress rehearsal augured well for the play.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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More often that not, my students I are talking about augering not auguring. Though one could argue that when we make hypotheses, we are in fact auguring. I think however, we should avoid using that word in our writing.<\/p>\n

\"Prof<\/a>

“I augur that our sites will be quite extensively augered to determine the soil characteristics.”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are augers.   This is an augur.   The free dictionary defines augur as follows: n. 1.\u00a0One of a group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and interpreting signs and omens. 2.\u00a0A seer or prophet; … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47],"tags":[424,729],"class_list":["post-8982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-anne","category-field-gear","tag-prediction","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}