{"id":42,"date":"2005-04-14T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-04-14T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T16:10:59","slug":"how-to-speak-good-or-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"How to speak good, or well."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomon.org\/go.php?http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/ahead\/change\/vowelpower\/vowel.html\" target=\"blank\" title=\"(2 hits)\">This is an interesting test<\/a> where you have to listen to a regionally-challanged word out of context and see if you can tell what&#8217;s being said.  When you&#8217;re done with that, and you&#8217;re feeling superior to the freakish mountain folk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomon.org\/go.php?http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/speech\/beastly\/\" target=\"blank\" title=\"(3 hits)\">go here<\/a> to see how many words you regularly mispronounce.  Of course, they have to say it&#8217;s an &#8220;Opinionated Guide&#8221; which &#8220;offers suggestions on how to pronounce &#8230; words&#8221;.  Which sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomon.org\/go.php?http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/speech\/correct\/decline\/\" target=\"blank\" title=\"(3 hits)\">prescriptivists<\/a> trying not to upset <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomon.org\/go.php?http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/speak\/speech\/correct\/gatekeeping\/\" target=\"blank\" title=\"(3 hits)\">descriptivists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which means my side is winnin&#8217; tha culture war!  Yee-haw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting test where you have to listen to a regionally-challanged word out of context and see if you can tell what&#8217;s being said. When you&#8217;re done with that, and you&#8217;re feeling superior to the freakish mountain folk, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Tie6-G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}