{"id":920,"date":"2009-12-07T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T00:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-12-10T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T00:23:14","slug":"here-comes-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/12\/here-comes-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"Here comes Santa Claus…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, I am involved with Love Santa <\/a>at this time of year – I write letters to Australian children to help out that busiest of men, Santa Claus (Father Christmas or St Nick). I love doing it, and am honoured Santa entrusts this important task to me each Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’d think that Santa is famous enough that people could spell his name, but unfortunately I often see it misspelt so it inspired this week’s Monday Meanings<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Claus<\/strong><\/span> – Santa’s surname\/last night\/family name; a first name for boys in some countries
\nSanta Claus is a very generous man.<\/em><\/p>\n

Clause<\/strong><\/span> – part of a sentence\u00a0 (including a subject and its verb) or a legal document
\nAccording to clause 23.4, all pilots must avoid flying at sleigh height on 24h December.<\/em><\/p>\n

Claws <\/strong><\/span>– sharp nails growing from the fingers or paws of some animals, especially cats.
\nSanta’s kitten sharpens his claws on the couch.<\/em><\/p>\n

How to remember these three words? Well, the easy one is relating claws<\/strong> to jaws<\/strong> as both are sharp and potentially dangerous!<\/p>\n

Then just take the easier\/shorter word for Santa as he is uncomplicated (magical and special, but uncomplicated!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, I am involved with Love Santa at this time of year – I write letters to Australian children to help out that busiest of men, Santa Claus (Father Christmas or St Nick). I love doing it, and am honoured Santa entrusts this important task to me each Christmas. You’d think that Santa is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,272],"tags":[1000,1001,1002,905,1003],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-word-constructions","category-monday-meanings","tag-claus","tag-clause","tag-claws","tag-letter","tag-santa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t