{"id":186,"date":"2005-04-08T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-11-30T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:29:52","slug":"pronunciation-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"pronunciation issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note to Americans talking about Melbourne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not pronounced <em>Mel-BOORN<\/em> (actually, I don&#8217;t think I can even capture with phonetic spelling the strange things you do to the &#8216;ourne&#8217; section).  <em>MEL-b&#8217;n<\/em> is the more common pronunciation.  If you&#8217;re being fancy about it, you can extend to <em>MEL-ben<\/em>, or even <em>MEL-bern<\/em>.  But never <em>Mel-BOORN<\/em>.  <em>Melbs<\/em> is also satisfactory, if you have begun to develop the Australian thirst for abbreviation.<\/p>\n<p>(More photos and more interesting things coming once I sort out my current issues with getting my laptop online at home)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to Americans talking about Melbourne It is not pronounced Mel-BOORN (actually, I don&#8217;t think I can even capture with phonetic spelling the strange things you do to the &#8216;ourne&#8217; section). MEL-b&#8217;n is the more common pronunciation. If you&#8217;re being fancy about it, you can extend to MEL-ben, or even MEL-bern. But never Mel-BOORN. Melbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,457,83,456,256],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-language","tag-linguistics","tag-melbourne","tag-pronunciation","tag-usa"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">language<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">linguistics<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">melbourne<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">pronunciation<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">language<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">linguistics<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">melbourne<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">pronunciation<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 8.4.2005","modified":"Updated on 30.11.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 8.4.2005 12:46 pm","modified":"Updated on 30.11.2008 10:29 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}