{"id":6735,"date":"2012-03-08T16:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T16:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2012-03-08T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T16:58:46","slug":"de-risking-and-de-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6735","title":{"rendered":"De-risking and de-scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I heard a discussion on the radio (BBC Radio 4) in which the words <strong>de-risk<\/strong> and <strong>de-scale<\/strong>, cropped up. They caught my attention because I hadn&#8217;t come across them before. <\/p>\n<p>The context was the UK Sports Minister talking about the London Olympics, and he said, &#8220;As the project moves on it de-risks and de-scales.&#8221; I took this to mean that the size and risks involved in the project are reduced as it proceeds. I&#8217;m not sure if the Minister made them up on the spot, or if he&#8217;d heard them or read them somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>De-risk gets 310 results in Google, and derisk gets only 29. De-scale and descale get 5 and 6 results respectively. So it seems these words aren&#8217;t all that common. Have you heard them before?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I heard a discussion on the radio (BBC Radio 4) in which the words de-risk and de-scale, cropped up. They caught my attention because I hadn&#8217;t come across them before. The context was the UK Sports Minister talking about the London Olympics, and he said, &#8220;As the project moves on it de-risks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}