{"id":33232,"date":"2017-09-02T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33232"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:26:09","slug":"qotd-all-aboot-that-canajan-accent-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/qotd-all-aboot-that-canajan-accent-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: All aboot that Canajan accent, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was also delighted to learn that “rhotacized speech \u2014 that is, speech in which the \u201cR\u201d sound is somehow disfigured \u2014 tends to be amusing for English speakers.” As an English speaker with a rhotic, Canadian accent, I delight in my English wife’s non-rhotic pronunciations of “hair” (“hehhh”) and “there” (“thehhh”), and often find myself parroting her when she says them to the point where selectively rhoticizing and de-rhoticizing our speech has become a running gag in our family.<\/p>\n

Cory Doctorow, “The true story behind the ERMAHGERD meme just makes us love it more”, BoingBoing<\/em><\/a>, 2015-10-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was also delighted to learn that “rhotacized speech \u2014 that is, speech in which the \u201cR\u201d sound is somehow disfigured \u2014 tends to be amusing for English speakers.” As an English speaker with a rhotic, Canadian accent, I delight in my English wife’s non-rhotic pronunciations of “hair” (“hehhh”) and “there” (“thehhh”), and often find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41,13],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-33232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8E0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33233,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232\/revisions\/33233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}