{"id":24658,"date":"2019-06-09T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24658"},"modified":"2019-06-09T05:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T10:48:37","slug":"in-my-defense-i-pronounced-it-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/09\/in-my-defense-i-pronounced-it-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Defense, I Pronounced It Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the martial arts school where I study has replaced a water wall, which really was more of a water on the floor by the wall in the brief period where it was operational, with a fish tank to which they&#8217;re slowly adding fish, and I mentioned that I knew a guy who had a saltwater tank and was raising anemone.  Sea anemone, that is, not the terrestrial flower after which it is named.<\/p>\n<p>One of the listeners made mock of my pronunciation of the word, which immediately made <em>me<\/em> self-conscious of my pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/jQVYEQLiqjTp4qCIWC\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/jQVYEQLiqjTp4qCIWC\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you know, gentle reader, I have learned a vast quantity of my vocabulary from books, so I&#8217;m especially self-conscious of pronouncing things incorrectly.  Recently, I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve stumbled over <em>perfidy<\/em> and have ruled out of using <em>opprobium<\/em> in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Which is just as well; the Internet tells me I missed an R in it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/opprobrium.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should start making use of that little &#8220;Say it&#8221; button so I know how to pronounce things.  Unfortunately, when I&#8217;m about to drop an exotic word in conversation, that button isn&#8217;t handy, and looking it up on my phone fails to make me look smart in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and back to <em>anemone<\/em>.  The question was whether I was throwing an extra N in it.  In my defense, I might have said &#8220;<em>an<\/em> anemone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the problem wouldn&#8217;t have occurred in the first place if I&#8217;d said <em>sea<\/em> anemone, which is what I was talking about.  But I know aquaria less than I know exotic words and how to use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the martial arts school where I study has replaced a water wall, which really was more of a water on the floor by the wall in the brief period where it was operational, with a fish tank to which they&#8217;re slowly adding fish, and I mentioned that I knew a guy who had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658","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=24658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24662,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions\/24662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}