{"id":1642,"date":"2014-09-30T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:28:27","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-whistleblower\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Whistleblower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1643\" alt=\"what is a whistleblower\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower.jpg 545w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower-190x73.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower-280x107.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/investigation-2010-04-whistleblower-445x171.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8216;whistleblower&#8217; is used to describe a person who tries to raise the alarm about a problem and publicizes it inside and\/or outside of his\/her organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Origin:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8216;Whistle blower&#8217; was used literally well before it gained its current figurative meaning. Lots of people blew whistles; hunters, sailors, police officers and sports referees.<\/p>\n<p>In the 19th century we had &#8216;whistle blowers&#8217;, in the 20th we had &#8216;whistle-blowers&#8217; and now we have &#8216;whistleblowers&#8217;. This changing of an expression into a word, with the intervening hyphenated phase, is one of the most common ways we form new words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The term &#8216;whistleblower&#8217; is used to describe a person &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[182,191,307,1659,443],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-expression","tag-interesting-phrase","tag-september-2014","tag-whitleblower","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}