{"id":20654,"date":"2014-06-16T18:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20654"},"modified":"2014-06-16T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:41:54","slug":"mispronounciations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20654","title":{"rendered":"Misspronounciatiorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After she died, a couple of weeks back, our local NPR station started changing the way announcers would pronounce Maya Angelou's last name. After decades of hearing it pronounced as it's spelled, An-jel-<em>oo<\/em> (or Ahnjel-<em>oo<\/em>), they've started pronouncing it \"An-jel-<em>oh<\/em>\". Turns out, they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danndulin.com\/mayaangelou.html\">right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And about that same time, they started changing the way they pronounce the name of local Marine base, Camp Lejeune. I've always heard it pronounced Camp Le-<i>zhoon<\/i>, but they started pronouncing it Camp Le-<i>zhurn<\/i>. Some invisible 'r' had snuck its way in there. Turns out, they <a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128572001'>were right<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After she died, a couple of weeks back, our local NPR station started changing the way announcers would pronounce Maya Angelou's last name. After decades of hearing it pronounced as it's spelled, An-jel-oo (or Ahnjel-oo), they've started pronouncing it \"An-jel-oh\". Turns out, they are right. And about that same time, they started changing the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20659,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}