{"id":32388,"date":"2023-02-06T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32388"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:23:11","slug":"spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=32388","title":{"rendered":"Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned something fundamental about English spelling \/ pronunciation. And I'm shocked I was never explicitly taught it. <\/p>\n<p>Rule:<br \/>\nA vowel that precedes two identical consonants is always a <em>short<\/em> vowel.<\/p>\n<p>Egging<br \/>\nLogging<br \/>\nStuff<br \/>\nSpill<br \/>\nConning (ex vs coning)<br \/>\nPurr<\/p>\n<p>Related rule:<br \/>\nShort vowels can also precede single consonants. So the former rule isn't actually super-useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned something fundamental about English spelling \/ pronunciation. And I'm shocked I was never explicitly taught it. Rule: A vowel that precedes two identical consonants is always a short vowel. Egging Logging Stuff Spill Conning (ex vs coning) Purr Related rule: Short vowels can also precede single consonants. So the former rule isn't [&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-32388","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\/32388","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=32388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32390,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32388\/revisions\/32390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}