{"id":13683,"date":"2008-10-23T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/23\/dagnabbit-its-rovean-not-rovian.html"},"modified":"2008-10-23T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:25:54","slug":"dagnabbit_its_rovean_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/dagnabbit_its_rovean_not.html","title":{"rendered":"Dagnabbit, it&#8217;s <i>Rovean,<\/i> not <i>Rovian!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Karl Rove\" style=\"WIDTH: 92px; HEIGHT: 125px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/karl-rove.jpg\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>Actions and strategies done by or in the manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Rove\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Rove<\/a> should be referred to as <em>Rovean<\/em>. The man has&nbsp;silent&nbsp;<em>e<\/em> at the end of his name, and all the examples I could think of (Lockean, Humean, Shakespearean) simply use the rule of tacking an <em>-an<\/em> to the end to create an adjectival form. You&#8217;d only change it to an <em>-ian<\/em>&nbsp;if is name ended in <em>-i<\/em> or a consonant.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, a search on Google gives me 7,810 hits for <em>Rovean<\/em>, 387,000 for <em>Rovian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Criminy sakes, the man has even corrupted English&nbsp;grammar &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actions and strategies done by or in the manner of Karl Rove should be referred to as Rovean. The man has&nbsp;silent&nbsp;e at the end of his name, and all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13511,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/rovean_interview.html","url_meta":{"origin":13683,"position":0},"title":"Rovean Interview","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Nov-08 2:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know if it's the editing or if Karl Rove is just sitting ... very ... still right now, trying not to let his head explode. 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