{"id":1355,"date":"2013-03-13T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2013-03-13T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T20:53:28","slug":"its-no-wonder-i-cant-pronounce-these-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/its-no-wonder-i-cant-pronounce-these-words\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no wonder I can&#8217;t pronounce these words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1356\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/its-no-wonder-i-cant-pronounce-these-words\/jamacha_sign_t658\/\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1356\" title=\"Jamacha_sign_t658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jamacha_sign_t658-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jamacha_sign_t658-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jamacha_sign_t658.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Whereas San Diego has it&#8217;s fair share of weirdly pronounced words, Jamacha and Otay come to mind, most often if you use the Spanish pronunciation you&#8217;ll be correct. (Jamacha &#8211; the ch is like an sh, and Otay the y is really like an i, so more like Otai.) But <a href=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site36\/2013\/0225\/20130225_081945_ColoradoPronunciationGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this <\/a>article gives some explanation for the unusual pronunciations of places the state of Colorado. Not that I&#8217;ll ever understand Zuni with a long i on the end.<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; Fixed the link, let&#8217;s try this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas San Diego has it&#8217;s fair share of weirdly pronounced words, Jamacha and Otay come to mind, most often if you use the Spanish pronunciation you&#8217;ll be correct. (Jamacha &#8211; the ch is like an sh, and Otay the y is really like an i, so more like Otai.) But this article gives some explanation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/its-no-wonder-i-cant-pronounce-these-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s no wonder I can&#8217;t pronounce these words&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-humor","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chez-oswell.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}