{"id":1699,"date":"2014-02-18T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2014-07-16T00:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:31:24","slug":"forms-of-embarrassment-4-ier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"Forms of Embarrassment (4) (&#8220;-ier&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worrying about how to pronounce works like &#8220;bombardier&#8221; and &#8220;chocolatier&#8221;. Should these be said like &#8220;choc-o-lat-i-er&#8221; with a naff 6th-form French accent? Or, like &#8220;chocolateer&#8221;, which has a jolly-hockey-sticks weird 1950s vibe to it. Usually end up either (1) trying to find a compromise pronunciation, which is futile and ends up being incomprehensible, not least because the two pronunciations have different numbers of syllables, and them mumbling it anyway; or (2) obscuring the clarity of my sentence in a fog of &#8220;I&#8217;m not quite too sure how you say this, but&#8221;, &#8220;or however you say it&#8221; and similar hedges.<\/p>\n<p>A similar argument applies to the word &#8220;Pho&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worrying about how to pronounce works like &#8220;bombardier&#8221; and &#8220;chocolatier&#8221;. Should these be said like &#8220;choc-o-lat-i-er&#8221; with a naff 6th-form French accent? Or, like &#8220;chocolateer&#8221;, which has a jolly-hockey-sticks weird 1950s vibe to it. Usually end up either (1) trying to find a compromise pronunciation, which is futile and ends up being incomprehensible, not least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}