{"id":11758,"date":"2011-09-08T07:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T06:09:24","slug":"pelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/08\/pelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the English language and love playing with it - even if I don't always type it properly.<\/p>\n<p>As a result I was\u00a0delighted\u00a0when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/sep\/07\/top-tax-rate-editorial\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian editorial today<\/a> presented me with a word I had not come\u00a0across\u00a0before - pelf.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Dictionary on my Mac defines it as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>pelf |pelf|<\/p>\n<p>noun<\/p>\n<p>money, esp. when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way.<\/p>\n<p>ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [booty, pilfered property] ): from a variant of Old French <strong><em>pelfre \u2018spoils,\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>of unknown origin. Compare with <strong>pilfer <\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a suspicion I might be using that one again - it's just so apt.<\/p>\n<p>And for those bankers on twitter who thought the editorial was ambiguous - I think you missed the point in the title.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the English language and love playing with it &#8211; even if I don&#8217;t always type it properly. As a result I was\u00a0delighted\u00a0when the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/08\/pelf\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}