{"id":24005,"date":"2014-02-01T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24005"},"modified":"2014-01-25T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T22:49:47","slug":"a-little-fun-speaking-new-zild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/a-little-fun-speaking-new-zild\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Fun: Speaking “New Zild”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t commonly hear our own accents, but I’m told New Zealanders — or “Kiwis” as we often refer to ourselves — are popularly held to have reduced the English language’s vowel 5 sounds to approximately 2.5.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, I thought you might like to learn how to “pronunciate New Zild” all correct-like… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Starting at the very best place, i.e. the beginning, with “A”:<\/p>\n

“A is for Uh”<\/strong> — a sound commonly used when pausing in mid-speech…<\/em><\/p>\n

This, of course, would mean that “Asantir”, in the Wall Of Night series<\/a>, is pronounced “Uhz-un-tir.”<\/p>\n

So now you know! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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We don’t commonly hear our own accents, but I’m told New Zealanders — or “Kiwis” as we often refer to ourselves — are popularly held to have reduced the English language’s vowel 5 sounds to approximately 2.5. Be that as it may, I thought you might like to learn how to “pronunciate New Zild” all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24005"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24161,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24005\/revisions\/24161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}