{"id":24735,"date":"2014-03-16T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24735"},"modified":"2014-03-02T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:31:42","slug":"a-little-more-fun-speaking-nu-zild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/03\/16\/a-little-more-fun-speaking-nu-zild\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little More Fun, Speaking Nu Zild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my first post on this topic <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/a-little-fun-speaking-new-zild\/\" target=\"_blank\">on February 1<\/a>, I let you in on the secret that &#8220;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.&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another of the more famous pronunciations you need to know in order to speak Nu Zild all correct like:<\/p>\n<p><strong>C is for &#8220;Chups&#8221;:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>a popular way of consuming potatoes, most commonly encountered with takeaway meals<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m starting to detecting a trend, the slow slump of most vowels towards &#8220;u.&#8221; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first post on this topic on February 1, I let you in on the secret that &#8220;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.&#8221; \ud83d\ude09 Here&#8217;s another of the more famous pronunciations you need [&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-24735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735","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=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24740,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions\/24740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}