{"id":12495,"date":"2013-02-09T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12495"},"modified":"2013-02-09T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T13:51:28","slug":"words-i-mispronounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/words-i-mispronounce\/","title":{"rendered":"Words I Mispronounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a pile of vocabulary merely from reading, and so I have been known to mispronounce a lot of words on occasion even though I use them correctly.  This constantly amuses my beautiful wife, who grew up amongst people with greater spoken vocabularies than I did.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I constantly mispronounce these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Bagel<\/b>.  You kids might not remember this, but before the, what, late 1980s or early 1990s, the bagel was not a dietary staple of people outside of New York City, so it wasn&#8217;t discussed widely in common argot in the Midwest.  I read a lot of books set in New York City, so a lot of hardboiled detectives enjoyed this hardboiled bread.  And I pronounce it with the word bag in the first syllable, which I understand is not the right way.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Respite<\/b>.  It looks like spiting again, so I learned to pronounce it that way.  I guess I had a lot of spite in my youth, but little rest.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Subsequent<\/b>.  It&#8217;s from the same root as sequence, so it&#8217;s still not exactly clear to me why it is not pronounced the same way.  I&#8217;m almost in favor of adding accent marks to English to support my personal pronunciation habits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many more, but these are the ones that come to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a pile of vocabulary merely from reading, and so I have been known to mispronounce a lot of words on occasion even though I use them correctly. This constantly amuses my beautiful wife, who grew up amongst people with greater spoken vocabularies than I did. At any rate, I constantly mispronounce these: Bagel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12497,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions\/12497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}