{"id":24396,"date":"2014-03-06T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24396"},"modified":"2014-02-17T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T08:36:16","slug":"more-fun-speaking-new-zild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/more-fun-speaking-new-zild\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fun Speaking &#8220;New Zild&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/a-little-fun-speaking-new-zild\/\">Saturday February 1<\/a>, I started having a little fun with &#8220;speaking Nu Zild&#8221;, in which I explained that:<\/p>\n<p>Although <em>&#8220;we don\u2019t commonly hear our own accents &#8230; I\u2019m told New Zealanders \u2014 or \u201cKiwis\u201d as we often refer to ourselves \u2014 are popularly held to have reduced the English language\u2019s vowel 5 sounds to approximately 2.5 &#8230; <\/em>[So]<em> &#8230; I thought you might like to learn how to \u201cpronunciate New Zild\u201d all correct-like\u2026&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;B&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;B is for Bull:<\/strong> <em>you know, what you get charged for &#8216;goods and services&#8217;.&#8221;<\/em> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday February 1, I started having a little fun with &#8220;speaking Nu Zild&#8221;, in which I explained that: Although &#8220;we don\u2019t commonly hear our own accents &#8230; I\u2019m told New Zealanders \u2014 or \u201cKiwis\u201d as we often refer to ourselves \u2014 are popularly held to have reduced the English language\u2019s vowel 5 sounds to [&hellip;]<\/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-24396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396","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=24396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24630,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions\/24630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}